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Tetrobol - Athenes
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 360 BC - 350 BC |
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| Diameter | 14.5 mm |
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| Reverse description | Stag standing to right, rendered in profile with naturalistic detail, the name of the magistrate Athenes inscribed across the field in two lines. The entire design is contained within a shallow incuse square, a hallmark of early Thracian coinage from Abdera. The inscription identifies the eponymous magistrate responsible for the coin issue, following the standard civic coinage practice of the city. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Abdera's coinage is unusual in that individual magistrates — or issuing officials — were named directly on the coins, a practice that gives modern scholars an unusually detailed administrative record of the mint across the fourth century. The "Athenes" cited here is one such named authority, placing this tetrobol within a documented sequence that numismatists have cross-referenced against May's foundational die study to reconstruct approximate issue dates. The "corr." notation against May#454 signals a correction to his original attribution, likely involving a die link or magistrate pairing he had misassigned.