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Tetradrachm - Thersas
| Issuer | Akanthos (Macedon) |
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| Year | 380 BC - 350 BC |
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| Weight | 14.28 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ΘΕΡΣΑΣ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Akanthos was a Chalcidian colony on the Athos peninsula whose silver coinage was made possible by access to the rich mines of the Thracian interior. The city sat uncomfortably between competing powers throughout the fourth century — Macedon to the west, the Chalcidian League to the south — and was effectively absorbed by Philip II during his consolidation of the northern Aegean in the 350s, which brought the independent civic coinage of Akanthos to an end.
The magistrate name Thersas appearing on this issue places it within a small, attributable group sharing specific die links documented by Raymond and later refined in studies of northern Greek silver. The series is metrologically tied to the Thraco-Macedonian weight standard rather than Attic.