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Tetradrachm - Demetrios
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 336 BC - 311 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ |
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Abdera's magistrate coinage system is unusually well-documented for a Thracian Greek city, with individual issues attributable to named local officials — the figure of Demetrios here placing this piece within a civic series that continued producing identifiable magistrate attributions across political upheaval that would have shuttered lesser mints. The city had been sacked by the Triballi in 376 BC, recovered, and was still issuing coherent silver well into the period of Macedonian regional dominance under Philip II and his successors.
May's 1966 die study remains the authoritative reference for this series, and HGC 3.2 cross-references confirm the type without superseding it.