Stater - Mygdones or Krestones

The Mygdones and Krestones were neighboring Thracian tribes occupying the region between the Axios and Strymon rivers, and the attribution of this coinage has never been settled — scholars have argued for both groups, and for specific towns within each territory, without consensus. What is clear is the timing: these staters were struck in the years immediately before and during Xerxes' invasion of Greece, when Persian forces marched directly through this region in 480 BC. The local silver supply came from mines that Persia would subsequently control.