Phlious was a small polis in the northeastern Peloponnese, perpetually squeezed between Corinth, Argos, and Sikyon, and its independent coinage reflects the precarious balancing act the city maintained throughout the fourth century. The city sided with Sparta during the Corinthian War and weathered an Argive-backed siege in the 380s BC that Xenophon describes at some length in the Hellenica — Spartan relief under Agesilaus II eventually broke the blockade.
Bronze civic coinage of this scale was strictly local, circulating within the immediate region for small transactions. The SNG Copenhagen variant designation suggests minor die differences that have not been fully catalogued across the surviving corpus.
Phlious was a small polis in the northeastern Peloponnese, perpetually squeezed between Corinth, Argos, and Sikyon, and its independent coinage reflects the precarious balancing act the city maintained throughout the fourth century. The city sided with Sparta during the Corinthian War and weathered an Argive-backed siege in the 380s BC that Xenophon describes at some length in the Hellenica — Spartan relief under Agesilaus II eventually broke the blockade.
Bronze civic coinage of this scale was strictly local, circulating within the immediate region for small transactions. The SNG Copenhagen variant designation suggests minor die differences that have not been fully catalogued across the surviving corpus.