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Tetradrachm - Melanippos
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 415 BC - 395 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΕΛΑΝΙΠΠΟΣ |
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Abdera, a prosperous Ionian colony on the Thracian coast, issued magistrate-signed tetradrachms throughout the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, each series naming a local official responsible for the issue. Melanippos is among the documented signing magistrates, placing this coin within a civic accountability system unusual in its explicitness for Greek colonial mints of the period.
The city's wealth derived substantially from Thracian trade routes and nearby silver sources, which funded a sustained and technically accomplished coinage. May's corpus remains the essential reference for die linkage and magistrate sequencing within the series.