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Chalkon
| Issuer | Kaunos |
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| Year | 390 BC - 370 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Kaunos, Karia |
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Kaunos occupied an awkward political position throughout the early fourth century, nominally under Persian suzerainty yet culturally Hellenized enough to mint Greek-style civic coinage. The city sat on the boundary between Caria and Lycia, and its bronze small change — this piece among them — circulated during a period when the King's Peace of 387 BC had formally reassigned the Aegean Greeks to Achaemenid control, making even the act of issuing civic bronze a quiet assertion of local identity.