Dichalkon

Pheneos was an Arcadian city-state with an outsized mythological profile — it claimed to be the site where Hermes was born and where Odysseus had land-holdings — but in political terms it was perpetually squeezed between larger Arcadian powers and the ambitions of Macedon. Bronze civic coinage of this type was issued during a period when Pheneos still maintained nominal autonomy, though the city's loyalties shifted repeatedly across the Macedonian succession conflicts of the early third century. The BCD Peloponnesos specimen, lot 1626, was among the finer documented examples before dispersal at auction in 2012.