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Tetrobol - Menon
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 311 BC - 280 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine archaic-transitional style with naturalistic facial features and a laurel wreath crowning the hair; the bust is set within a linear square border, with the civic legend ΑΒΔΗΡΙΤΕΩΝ distributed around the exterior of the square within the coin's field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Abdera's civic coinage consistently named the presiding magistrate on each issue — an administrative practice that makes pieces like this one historically traceable to a specific official, Menon, even when the precise year of his tenure within the mint's active window remains unresolved. The city on the Thracian coast had been refounded by Teos around 545 BC and maintained a strong enough commercial position to sustain a long coinage tradition despite repeated pressure from Macedonian expansion. By the early third century, that independence was eroding fast.