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Tetrobol
| Issuer | Bisaltai |
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| Year | 475 BC - 465 BC |
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| Value | Tetrobol (⅔) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (475 BC - 465 BC) |
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The Bisaltai were a Thracian tribe whose territory in the Strymon river valley sat directly astride the main overland route between Greece and the Aegean coast — a position that gave them outsized commercial importance relative to their political weight. Their coinage, struck in the decade before Philip I of Macedon absorbed the region, drew on the same rich silver deposits that would later underpin Macedonian expansion. This tetrobol belongs to a tribal coinage that effectively ended when Bisaltian independence did.