Tetradrachm - Herodotos

Abdera's tetradrachms from this period name their issuing magistrate directly on the coin — an administrative practice that makes each type attributable to a specific individual holding civic authority. Herodotos appears among a sequence of such magistrates documented across the series, his name anchoring this piece to a defined bureaucratic moment rather than a generic civic issue.

The city itself was refounded around 545 BC by Teian refugees fleeing Persian expansion, and by the mid-fifth century had become prosperous enough to sustain a substantial silver coinage drawing on Thracian mining resources.