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Chalkon
| Issuer | Sikyon |
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| Year | 250 BC - 200 BC |
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| Value | Chalkon (1⁄48) |
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| Obverse description | A dove in flight, depicted in three-quarter view moving to the right, with wings prominently spread and rendered in bold relief. The bird's primary feathers are carefully delineated, radiating outward in a stylized yet naturalistic manner characteristic of Sikyonian bronze coinage. The tail feathers and body are rendered in a compact, assured style consistent with late Hellenistic civic bronzes. The field is otherwise plain and unlettered. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Sikyon occupied an uncomfortable position in third-century Hellenistic politics — nominally independent yet repeatedly squeezed between Macedonian ambition and the growing influence of the Achaean League, which Sikyon itself joined under Aratos in 251 BC. This small bronze issue falls squarely within that transitional period, when the city's coinage was still functioning as a civic expression even as Sikyonian political autonomy was becoming increasingly nominal.
The BCD collection reference places this among a tightly catalogued series from the Peloponnesos sale, where die linkage studies helped establish relative chronologies that literary sources alone cannot provide.