Tetrobol - Anachidikos

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.