Mints of Thessaly

c. 500 BC/BCE to 146 BC/BCE

Historically, the Thessalian coinage falls into three well-defined periods:

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c. 500 BC/BCE to 146 BC/BCE

Historically, the Thessalian coinage falls into three well-defined periods:

(i) 480 BC, or earlier, to 344 BC, from the Persian wars to the time of the subjection of the country by Philip of Macedon, when the autonomous issues of the Thessalian cities come to an abrupt termination, and are supplanted by the regal money of Macedon. The coins of this period may be subdivided by style into two classes, (a) 480-400 BC, with the reverse type in an incuse square, and (b) 400-344 BC, without the incuse square.

(ii) 302-286 BC. New issue of silver coins in Thessaly, probably on the occasion of the expedition into Thessaly of Demetrius Poliorcetes, who then bestowed liberty upon several Thessalian cities. These silver issues lasted no long time, but it is probable that bronze money continued to be struck in Thessaly throughout the century of Macedonian rule.

(iii) 196-146 BC. This period is marked by Federal coinages in the names of the Thessalians, the Magnetes, the Perrhaebians, the Aenianians and the Oetaeans, which came into existence after the proclamation of the freedom of Greece by Flamininus, and lasted until Thessaly was incorporated with the Roman province of Macedonia, in 146 BC.

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