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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Oitaioi |
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| Year | 360 BC - 344 BC |
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| Reference(s) | HGC 4#129, BCD Thessaly II#487 |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Oitaioi were an Aitolian tribal people whose coinage is poorly understood precisely because the group itself left almost no literary footprint. This hemidrachm belongs to a narrow window before Philip II's Macedonian expansion effectively absorbed or displaced the smaller minting authorities across Thessaly and its neighbors. The BCD Thessaly II corpus, drawn from the celebrated BCD collection auctioned in the 2000s, remains the primary scholarly reference for attributing these issues, and even there the Oitaioi material is sparse.