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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Amphipolis, City of |
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| Year | 369 BC - 368 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | AMΦ – IΠO – ΛIT – EΩN (Translation: Amphipolis) |
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| Mint | Amphipolis |
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Amphipolis had been an Athenian colony since 437 BC, a strategically vital position controlling timber supplies and the gold and silver mines of Mount Pangaion — until Brasidas took it in 424 BC, a loss Thucydides considered catastrophic enough to earn him exile. The city gained formal independence in 357 BC, but this tetradrachm predates that by over a decade, struck during a brief window when Amphipolis operated as a genuinely autonomous polis under Macedonian pressure from Amyntas III rather than Athenian recovery efforts.
The AMNG III#2 classification places this among the earliest autonomous silver issues of the city's independent coinage sequence.