Chalkon

Pherai rose to regional dominance under the tyrant Jason, who by 374 BC had united much of Thessaly under his tageia and was widely feared as a destabilizing force in mainland Greek politics — Xenophon records that even Sparta treated him warily. His assassination in 370 BC, followed by the violent succession struggles among his nephews, compressed the city's period of genuine political authority into barely a generation. Bronze civic issues from Pherai are accordingly scarce, produced during a window of ambition that closed almost as quickly as it opened.