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Tetradrachm - Euresippos
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 336 BC - 311 BC |
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| Weight | 10.12 g |
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| Obverse description | Griffin springing to the left in high relief, depicted with outstretched wings, feline haunches, and an eagle's beak and forelegs, rendered in the vigorous late Classical style characteristic of Abderite coinage. The creature's musculature and feather detailing are finely engraved, conveying a sense of dynamic forward motion. The ethnic legend ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ is divided around the field, with the first portion appearing above the griffin and the remainder along the lower exergual area. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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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.