Chalkon

The Oitaioi were a tribal grouping of the Ainianes confederacy settled in the Spercheios valley of central Greece, a region that remained peripheral to the major currency networks of classical Greece. Their bronze small-change issues are documented but poorly understood in terms of specific minting authority — it is not clear whether production was centralized at a single polis or distributed across the tribal settlement. The BCD Thessaly references reflect Jean Elsen auction material that substantially revised earlier typological understanding of this series.