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Dichalkon
| Issuer | Kleonai |
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| Year | 320 BC |
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| Weight | 4.02 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus in right profile, rendered in bold relief with strongly modelled features characteristic of fourth-century Peloponnesian die-cutting. The laureate wreath is rendered with individual leaves visible atop the deity's thick, flowing hair. The portrait displays a mature, bearded visage with pronounced brow and well-defined facial contours. The field is plain and unlettered. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kleonai occupied an awkward geographic position between Corinth and Argos, and its autonomous bronze coinage reflects a narrow window of independent civic activity. The city's political fortunes were largely dictated by whichever of its larger neighbors held regional dominance at a given moment — Macedonian settlement of the Peloponnese after Chaironeia in 338 BC being the likely precondition that allowed this modest civic issue to circulate at all.
The BCD collection reference places this among two closely related die pairings, suggesting limited but distinct production runs rather than a single continuous striking.