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Triobol
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 475 BC - 450 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Griffin seated to the right in a dynamic pose, with raised forepaw and spread wings, rendered in archaic relief style. The griffin's powerful haunches and curling tail are visible, with characteristic feline body and avian features. The design occupies the full flan with no inscriptions, consistent with early Abderite coinage style. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Abdera, a Thasian colony on the Thracian coast, sat on one of the more productive silver supply routes of the fifth century, drawing on Pangaion-region sources that fed Thracian and Aegean mints alike. The city's coinage from this period is notable for its rotating magistrate system — individual issues were tied to named officials, making die linkage studies unusually tractable for a mint of this size. May's 1966 corpus remains the authoritative reference precisely because the series is complex enough to reward it.