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| Issuer | Skione |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Two eagles standing upright and facing one another in heraldic confrontation, their bodies rendered in profile with wings folded; the birds are depicted in a stylised manner typical of northern Greek civic bronzes. The composition is set against a plain, undecorated field with no exergual line. No inscription or ethnic legend is present, consistent with the SNG Copenhagen 323 type. |
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| Mint | Skione |
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Skione's very existence as a coin-issuing authority by this period is historically fraught. The city on the Pallene peninsula was razed by Athens in 421 BC following the Peace of Nikias — its adult male population executed and the remainder enslaved, per Thucydides. Whatever settlement eventually reoccupied the site issued small bronzes like this one, though whether as a refounded polis or an Olynthian-administered community remains debated among numismatists working the Macedonian regional series.