MACEDON. Skione. Circa 480-470 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 16.73 g, 3 h). Head of Protesilaos to right, wearing crested Attic helmet; crest inscribed Π[POTEΣIΛA]Σ. Rev. Σ-K-I-O Stern of galley to left; all within incuse square. ACGC 470. Alpha Bank, Macedonia 79. AMNG III, -. Dewing 1076. SNG ANS -. SNG Delepierre -. Traité I, 1629. Rare and unusually well preserved for this difficult issue. A lightly toned, boldly struck and very well centered example. Good very fine.


Skione was a minor city on the southern coast of the Pallene Peninsula, the westernmost headland of the Chalkidiki. Its impressive tetradrachms showing the Achaian hero Protesilaos on the obverse were struck in the years after the Persian Invasion of 480-479 BC, when Skione forsook its Persian overlords and joined the Delian League.