Tetradrachm - Miltiades II

Kardia, positioned at the neck of the Thracian Chersonese, was among the most strategically valuable Greek colonial settlements in the northern Aegean — whoever controlled it controlled movement between Europe and Asia. Miltiades II governed the Chersonese as a near-tyrant under Athenian backing, and this issue falls precisely within his final years there, when Persian pressure under Darius was closing in. He fled the peninsula by ship around 493 BC, narrowly escaping a Phoenician fleet, and was subsequently tried for tyranny upon returning to Athens.

The Weber 2400 citation marks this as a well-documented specimen in a series where die links across references remain only partially resolved.