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Tetrobol - Protes
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 411 BC - 385 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Youthful male head, identified as Dionysios, facing left within a shallow incuse square border. The portrait is rendered in fine archaic-to-early classical style with delicate features. The name of the magistrate ΠΡΩΤΗΣ is distributed in Greek letters around the head within the incuse square, serving as the civic magistrate's identifying legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΠΡΩΤΗΣ |
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Abdera's coinage during this period reflects the city's unusual monetary independence within the Thracian coastal network — a prosperity built largely on trade with the interior, where Thracian silver itself was abundant. The tetrobol denomination served interregional exchange rather than local retail, circulating well beyond Abdera's immediate territory into the Aegean commercial sphere.
The magistrate designation "Protes" appears in May's die study as a named issuing authority, one of several rotating officials through whose tenure Abdera maintained remarkably consistent fabric and weight standards even as the city navigated the political turbulence following Athens' defeat at Aegospotami in 405 BC.