Hemidrachm

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.