Hemidrachm

Philippopolis in Thessaly was a short-lived foundation, its coinage window narrow enough that the hemidrachm series is genuinely scarce in any condition. The BCD collection — assembled by the collector known only by that pseudonym — remains the definitive reference for Thessalian civic issues precisely because so many of these minor mints left almost no ancient literary trace, their existence reconstructed almost entirely from die studies and hoard evidence.