Chalkon

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.