Chalkon

Peparethos, a small island in the Northern Aegean now known as Skopelos, maintained enough commercial independence in the mid-fourth century BC to strike its own bronze coinage — no small matter for an island whose economy ran largely on wine, a product famous enough in antiquity that Peparethian wine jars have been found across the eastern Mediterranean. This chalkon falls within a period when the island was increasingly pressured by Macedonian expansion under Philip II, who would ultimately bring the Northern Aegean islands firmly under Macedonian influence before the century closed.