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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.