Stater - Pithes

Pithes is known from coin legends alone — no literary source names him as a ruler of Abdera, making this stater among the few pieces of evidence that he held civic or magistrate authority during the city's late Classical period. Abdera by this point had passed through Athenian and then Macedonian influence, and its autonomous silver coinage was operating on borrowed time. Philip II had already reshaped Thrace politically, and the city's independent issues would effectively cease as Macedonian administrative control tightened through the early Diadoch period.