Tetradrachm - Metrodotos

Maroneia, a Thasian colony on the Thracian coast, controlled access to some of the most productive wine-growing territory in the ancient Aegean world. These tetradrachms circulated widely through Thrace and into Macedon, where local dynasts accepted them alongside their own issues. The magistrate name Metrodotos places this piece within a relatively narrow administrative window, useful for sequencing the city's coinage but only recently systematized through Schönert-Geiss's die study.

The series predates Maroneia's absorption into the Macedonian orbit under Philip II.