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Tetrobol - Exekrates
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 396 BC - 360 BC |
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| Value | Tetrobol (⅔) |
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| Reverse description | Raised quadripartite incuse square divided into four recessed triangular sections by diagonal grooves meeting at the center, a characteristic archaic mill-sail incuse pattern. The magistrate's name ΕΞΕΚΡΑΤΗΣ is rendered in Greek letters arranged around the four sides of the square in the surrounding field, reading ΕΞΕ to the left, ΚΡ above, ΑΤ to the right, and ΗΣ below. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Abdera's magistrate-signed coinage is unusual among Thracian Greek cities — the eponymous magistrate name struck alongside the civic type was a local administrative convention that allows modern scholars to sequence issues with unusual precision. Exekrates appears in May's die study as one of the later magistrates in the series, placing this tetrobol in the decades following Abdera's sack by the Triballi around 376 BC, after which the city rebuilt its mint output under Macedonian pressure from the northwest.