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The researches
carried out during the past fifteen years and connected with
the coinage and the history of the Early Odrysian Kingdom enabled
to draw a considerable number of essential new conclusions of
which we shall note here those directly related to the present
study. It has been established that all early Odrysian kings
descended from Teres I and belonged to two kindred branches
of the dinasty having always had under their control one of
the two autonomous territories within the Odrysian Kingdom,
the first in its eastern part and the second in its western
part. The representatives of the senior branch of the dynasty,
Sparadokos, Seutes I, Hebryzelmis, Kotys I and Kersebleptes
had their main residences predominantly in the eastern territories,
while those of the representatives of the junior branch, Sytalces/Saratokos
(?), Metokos, Amatokos and Teres II were mainly in the western
territories of the Early Odrysian Kingdom. This has been confirmed
by the new examination of the informations obtained both from
the sources and the basic areas (i.e. the regions of use) where
different types of coins of the early Odrysian kinds of the
two branches of the dynasty have been found, and the new interpretation
of the ideas included in the images, inscriptions and additional
symbols on such early Odrysian regal coins.
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CONTENTS:
URBAN BRONZE COINS OF SMALL DENOMINATION
FROM THE PROPONTIS AREA WITH IMAGES OF A CONICAL VESSEL WITH TWO HANDLES,
DYNASTIC SYMBOL OF THE COINAGE OF THE EARLY ODRYSIAN KINGS OF THE 5TH-4TH
CENTURIES B.C. / 1
List of the authors of antiquity
and the literature used / 41
Genealogy of the Odrysian dynasty
from the end of the 6th to the 3rd quarter of 4th century b.c. / 43
Catalogue of early thracian tribal
coins / 46
References to articles and books
published by eng. Stavri Topalov in the field of numismatics and history
of the lands in the region of Ancient Thrace VII-I c.b.c. / 89
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