Æ29 - Elagabalus ΚΑΛΧΑΔΟΝΙΩΝ

Calchedon — the city Megarian colonists founded on the Asian shore of the Bosporus in the 7th century BC — was famously mocked by the Delphic oracle as the "city of the blind," for having overlooked the far superior site that would become Byzantium directly opposite. Under Roman provincial administration it remained a secondary settlement, its coins issued sporadically and in modest quantities. Dies for Bithynian civic bronzes of this period were often shared or reused across short reigns, making the attribution of individual specimens to Elagabalus's four-year rule dependent almost entirely on legend reading.