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Tetrobol - Anachidikos
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 415 BC - 395 BC |
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| Value | Tetrobol (⅔) |
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| Obverse description | Griffin seated to left in three-quarter view, with wings spread and raised, the body rendered in high relief with carefully articulated feathering along the wing surfaces. The creature's leonine haunches are tucked beneath its body, and the curved beak and alert head face left. The type is contained within a beaded border, characteristic of Abderite coinage of this period, and the overall style reflects the accomplished die-cutting tradition of this Thracian mint. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Abdera's magistrate-signed coinage is among the earliest examples of named civic officials appearing on Greek silver, a practice the city developed well before it became common elsewhere. The "anachidikos" designation identifies the issuing magistrate, placing this tetrobol within a system where individual accountability — not just civic identity — was embedded into the fabric of the currency. May's corpus remains the essential reference for untangling the overlapping magistrate sequences, and #212 sits in a phase corresponding roughly to Abdera's period of peak commercial activity in the northern Aegean before Macedonian pressure began reshaping regional trade.