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Triobol
| Issuer | Abdera |
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| Year | 500 BC - 480 BC |
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| Diameter | 12.0 mm |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square divided into four recessed compartments by raised ridges meeting at the center, forming a windmill or skew pattern within the square. The incuse is deeply impressed into the flan with a rough, irregular surface texture in each quarter, consistent with early archaic coinage technique. No legend or subsidiary device is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (500 BC - 480 BC) |
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Abdera, a Thracian coastal colony originally founded by Clazomenae and refounded by Teos around 545 BC, sat astride major trade routes connecting the Aegean to the Thracian interior. The city struck silver coinage with unusual confidence for its size, drawing on access to Thracian silver sources that made the region attractive enough to fight over. This piece dates to the decades immediately preceding the Persian invasions, during which Abdera briefly fell under Achaemenid control following Darius's Thracian campaign of 513 BC.
The May corpus reference with "cf." indicates a close but not exact die match — not uncommon in early Abderite coinage, where die consistency was loosely maintained.