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Obol
| Issuer | Skotoussa |
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| Year | 475 BC - 450 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Skotoussa was a minor Thessalian polis whose coinage output was limited and whose political existence was effectively terminated when Philip II of Macedon destroyed the city around 346 BC, dispersing its population. Surviving issues are scarce precisely because the mint operated for a short window and under a city that never achieved regional dominance.
BCD Thessaly II 726 places this obol within a tightly catalogued collection assembled by the late Swiss collector known as BCD — whose Thessalian holdings, auctioned by Nomos in 2011, remain the definitive reference sequence for the region's minor mints.