Dichalkon

Herakleia Trachinia was a Spartan foundation, planted in 426 BC in the middle of the Thessalian-dominated interior as a strategic foothold — and almost immediately resented by its neighbors. The city suffered repeated attacks from surrounding Thessalian and Aitolian tribes, and Thucydides records its early misgovernance as a near-catastrophic embarrassment for Sparta. That it survived long enough to strike autonomous bronze coinage at all is somewhat remarkable.

The variants noted against Copenhagen and Rogers suggest minor die differences that remain incompletely catalogued for this series.