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Chalkon
| Issuer | Argos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | Α |
| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Argos maintained an unusual degree of monetary independence throughout the fourth century, resisting the broader Peloponnesian trend toward silver-dominated civic coinage even as neighboring poleis standardized around it. The chalkon was a fractional bronze denomination filling the gap in small daily transactions that silver fractions were too valuable to handle practically. BCD Peloponnesos 1156 places this piece within a well-documented but modestly studied civic series.