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| Issuer | Skotoussa |
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| Year | 375 BC - 325 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A bunch of grapes suspended from a curving vine tendril flanked by two broad leaves, rendered in relief against a flat field. The ethnic legend of the issuing city appears above the central device. The entire composition is contained within a shallow incuse circle, a hallmark of Thessalian bronze coinage of this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (375 BC - 325 BC) |
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Skotoussa was a minor Thessalian polis whose coinage output was limited and whose political history was largely shaped by larger neighbors — most consequentially by Macedon. The city was destroyed by Philip II around 346 BC, its population enslaved, in reprisal for its alliance with Phokis during the Third Sacred War. That event likely brackets the upper end of this issue's production window more precisely than the nominal date range suggests.
Rogers 543 and the BCD Thessaly II census together account for very few specimens, consistent with a mint that was operating for decades at most before being permanently silenced.