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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Skotoussa |
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| Year | 225 BC - 200 BC |
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| Weight | 2.18 g |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of Artemis, turned slightly to the left, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair gathered and bound, strands falling loosely to either side. The goddess's features are depicted in a naturalistic Hellenistic style, with a serene expression and softly modeled facial contours. The neck is visible below, and the design fills the flan with little to no border or legend on this side. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Skotoussa was a Thessalian polis of middling importance whose coinage output was always limited, shaped partly by the city's recurring entanglement in the conflicts that swept through the Thessalian plain — including its forced incorporation into the Macedonian sphere following Philip II's reorganization of the region after 352 BC. By the late third century this hemidrachm was among the final expressions of the city's independent civic coinage before Roman intervention progressively dismantled the autonomy of Thessalian minting authority after 196 BC.