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Tetrobol - Molpagores
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 386 BC - 375 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΜΟΛΠΑΓΟΡΗΣ (Translation: Molpagores.) |
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Abdera's coinage from this period operated under an unusual civic convention: individual magistrates — epistatai — lent their names to coin issues, making each type a snapshot of annual office. Molpagores was one such official, his name tied to a tetrobol series now cataloged across a handful of major collections. The city itself, a Tean colony on the Thracian coast, was wealthy enough from regional trade to sustain a sophisticated silver coinage, but politically precarious — Abdera had suffered a devastating Triballi raid around 376 BC that disrupted civic life substantially.