Tetradrachm - Eudoros

Knidos occupied a strategically awkward position on the southwestern tip of the Anatolian peninsula, caught between Athenian naval ambitions and Persian territorial claims throughout the early fourth century. The city moved its entire population to a new site around 394 BC — the old peninsula town abandoned for a more defensible promontory — and this coinage was almost certainly struck in the immediate aftermath of that relocation, when civic institutions were being re-established and a fresh monetary identity was necessary. The magistrate name Eudoros appears on a small cluster of dies, suggesting a brief administrative tenure rather than a long series.