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Tetradrachm - Euresippos
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 336 BC - 311 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine late Classical style with carefully articulated curling locks and a wreath of laurel. The youthful, idealized portrait displays strong modeling of the facial features characteristic of fourth-century Greek die engraving. The magistrate's name in the genitive, ΕΠΙ ΕΥΡΗΣΙΠΠΟΥ, is inscribed in Greek letters around the field, identifying the presiding civic magistrate responsible for this issue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Abdera's tetradrachms of this period carry the name of a local magistrate — Euresippos — a practice the Thracian mint maintained consistently, giving modern scholars a rough prosopographical record of civic administration that few Greek cities preserved as legibly in metal. The city was refounded by Timesius of Clazomenae in the seventh century and later became the birthplace of both Democritus and Protagoras, though by the time this coin was struck, Abdera had passed through Macedonian dominance under Philip II and was minting under conditions of reduced but real autonomy.
May's die study remains the essential reference for attributing these magistrate issues precisely.