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Chalkon
| Issuer | Pheneos |
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| Year | 370 BC - 340 BC |
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| Value | Chalkon (1⁄48) |
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| Reverse description | Ram standing to right in profile, rendered with careful attention to the animal's woolly fleece and sturdy stance; the abbreviated ethnic inscription Φ Ε (for ΦΕΝΕΑΤΩΝ, referring to the city of Pheneos) appears in the upper field flanking the animal, in Greek letters. |
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| Mint | Pheneos |
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Pheneos was a minor Arcadian city-state whose political fortunes shifted dramatically in the decades following the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, when Spartan hegemony over the Peloponnese collapsed and briefly opened space for smaller poleis to assert independent civic identity — including the minting of their own bronze coinage. The chalkon represents exactly that window of municipal confidence, narrow and contingent on larger powers leaving Arcadia alone, which they rarely did for long.
The BCD Peloponnesos collection, from which lot 1603 derives, remains the definitive reference point for Arcadian bronzes of this class.