Chalkon

Krannon was a powerful Thessalian polis whose political influence peaked in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, yet its coinage remains sparsely documented. The city is best known to history for the Battle of Crannon in 322 BC, where Macedonian forces under Antipater crushed the last coordinated Greek resistance following the Lamian War — effectively ending Athenian-led opposition to Macedonian hegemony. This bronze issue predates that defeat by half a century, struck when Krannon still operated as a genuinely independent Thessalian power with its own monetary output.

The Rogers#172a variant designation signals a die difference from the principal type — minor enough to escape a separate number, consequential enough to note.