Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Skione |
|---|---|
| Year | 480 BC - 470 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Greek (retrograde) |
| Obverse lettering | ΠΡΟΤΕΣΙΛΑΟΣ |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Skione was a Greek colony on the Pallene peninsula of Chalkidike, and its independent coinage was abruptly terminated — along with the city itself — when Athens ordered its destruction in 421 BC following a revolt during the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides records that the adult male population was killed and the women and children enslaved, making any surviving Skionean coinage a relic of a community that was deliberately erased.
This tetradrachm dates to a generation before that end, struck when Skione was prosperous enough to produce heavy silver on the Thraco-Macedonian weight standard.