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Tetradrachm / Double Siglos - Peithesiles
| Issuer | Abdera (Thrace) |
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| Year | 360 BC - 350 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Griffin leaping to the left in high relief, rendered with fine artistic detail characteristic of Classical Thracian coinage. The creature displays a prominent eagle's head with open beak, large fanned wings raised above the body, and a leonine hindquarters with tail curling upward. The forelegs are extended forward in a bounding pose, conveying dynamism and vitality. The abbreviated civic ethnic ΑΒΔ appears in the upper field above the griffin's back. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΒΔ |
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Peithesiles served as eponymous magistrate at Abdera during a period of severe political instability — the city had been sacked by the Triballi around 376 BC and was still rebuilding its civic infrastructure decades later. Abderan tetradrachms of this period are notable for their use of a magistrate-naming convention that effectively dates individual issues, making the sequence historically traceable in a way most Greek civic coinages are not.
May's die study remains the foundational reference; #420 places this squarely within the mid-fourth-century group, after Athenian influence over the emission standard had begun to wane.