Chalkon

Phalanna was a minor Thessalian polis whose coinage output was limited enough that the city rarely appears in numismatic literature outside of regional Thessaly studies. This chalkon falls within the BCD collection reference framework, the cataloguing project built around the collection assembled by the collector known only as "BCD," whose Thessalian material remains the most systematically documented regional Greek bronze series in private hands. Rogers 457 places it firmly within the mid-fourth century civic issues that proliferated across Thessaly as smaller poleis asserted local identity through bronze small change during a period of shifting Macedonian pressure on the region.