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Chalkon
| Issuer | Megara (Megaris) |
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| Year | 250 BC - 50 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Megara's bronze coinage of this period survives in relatively modest quantities, reflecting the city's diminished regional standing after the Achaean League absorbed much of the political gravity in the northern Peloponnese. The city had once been prosperous enough to found Byzantium and Chalcedon, but by the Hellenistic period it was issuing small bronzes for purely local exchange with little ambition beyond that.
The two-century date range assigned to this type reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty rather than laziness — the iconographic and epigraphic evidence simply does not permit tighter attribution without hoard context.