Chalkous

Plakia was a small Hellenized settlement in the Propontis region, on the southern shore near the Troad, inhabited largely by Pelasgian descendants according to Herodotus. That a community of this size struck its own copper coinage at all reflects the degree to which autonomous civic identity expressed itself through minting rights in fourth-century Asia Minor, even among towns of negligible regional power. The chalkous was the smallest denomination in the Greek bronze hierarchy.