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Pydna's numismatic output from this period is sparse, which reflects the city's precarious political position more than any administrative oversight. The city fell to Macedon under Archelaus I in the late fifth century and spent the following decades in an uneasy relationship with the expanding Macedonian kingdom — this issue dates to the window before Philip II's consolidation made Pydna effectively a Macedonian city. It was finally seized outright by Philip in 357 BC after a siege, ending whatever remained of its civic independence.