Dichalkon

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.