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Tetradrachm - Nestis
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 450 BC - 425 BC |
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| Diameter | 27 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Abdera (Thrace) |
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Abdera's tetradrachms of this period are among the most typologically varied of any Thracian coastal mint, cycling through magistrate names and episode types at a pace that suggests a highly active civic administration. The Nestis issue falls within a quarter-century of intense commercial output tied to Abdera's position on the amber and grain routes connecting the Aegean to the Thracian interior. The city was refounded by Tean refugees fleeing the Persian advance around 545 BC, and that colonial identity seems to have driven a persistent civic pride in coinage quality that held through this period.