Chalkon

Tegea's bronze coinage of this period reflects the city's complicated position within the Achaean League's expanding orbit — nominally autonomous but increasingly drawn into the political machinery of the Peloponnese. The chalkon denomination itself was a workhorse of small retail exchange, circulating in local markets rather than traveling far. Most examples surface in excavation contexts around the sanctuary of Athena Alea, Tegea's dominant cult site and one of the few Peloponnesian sanctuaries that survived the Spartan sack of 370 BC relatively intact.