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Tetradrachm - Molpas
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 450 BC - 425 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΜΟΛΠΑΔΟΣ |
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Abdera's tetradrachms from this period name the sitting magistrate on the coin itself — an unusually early instance of individual civic officials being credited on a Greek silver issue. Molpas is one of roughly a dozen such named magistrates documented from fifth-century Abdera, each representing a distinct emission rather than a continuous series. The city's silver came largely from Thracian mining activity and its position on a key coastal trade route between the Aegean and the Black Sea littoral.
The May corpus remains the essential reference for attributing these magistrate issues, with #159-160 distinguishing die variants within the Molpas emission.