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Tetradrachm - Evagon
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 411 BC - 385 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A tall amphora with two handles depicted in profile at centre, set within a deeply recessed incuse square. The magistrate's name ΕΥΑΓΩΝ is arranged around the amphora in the field, with individual letter groups distributed in the corners and sides of the incuse square. The execution is characteristic of the Abderitan coinage of the early fourth century BC, with the incuse technique providing a strong contrast to the raised obverse design. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΥΑΓΩΝ |
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Abdera's tetradrachms from this period name the issuing magistrate directly on the coin — an unusually bureaucratic touch for a Thracian Greek city, and one that makes individual dies traceable to specific administrations. Evagon appears among the better-documented of these magistrates, with May's corpus able to assign him a coherent die sequence. The city was refounded by Teans fleeing the Persian advance around 545 BC and grew wealthy enough on Thracian trade routes to sustain a prolific silver coinage through the fifth and fourth centuries.