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Tetradrachm - Herogeiton
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 390 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Griffin sejant to left, with spread wings finely detailed in feathered relief, forelegs raised in a rearing posture atop a low ground line or base, within a beaded border. The mythical creature is rendered with characteristic Abderan artistic precision, displaying an eagle's head with open beak, prominent ear tufts, and a lion's body. The Greek ethnic legend ΑΒΗΡΙ appears in the upper field above the griffin. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΒΗΡΙ |
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Abdera's magistrate-signed tetradrachms are among the most systematically documented coinages of the northern Aegean, with each issue bearing the name of the annually appointed official responsible for the mint. Herogeiton's name appears on a small cluster of dies within the 390s sequence identified by J.M.F. May, whose 1966 die study remains the definitive reference for this series.
The city's prosperity in this period derived largely from its position on Thracian trade routes, though Abdera would suffer a devastating raid by the Triballi around 376 BC — an event that disrupted the civic coinage sequence visibly in May's die chronology.