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Dichalkon
| Issuer | Thessaloniki |
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| Year | 187 BC - 31 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚHΣ (Translation: Thessalonika) |
| Edge | Rough |
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Thessaloniki was refounded by Cassander around 316 BC, consolidating several smaller settlements into a single city named for his wife — Alexander the Great's half-sister. By the second century BC the city had grown into one of Macedonia's most commercially active ports, and its bronze small-denomination coinage reflects sustained civic production across a period that saw Macedonia absorbed into the Roman provincial system after 148 BC. The dichalkon continued circulating well into the late Republican period, its longevity a function of practical demand rather than political stability.