Dichalkon

Megara occupied an awkward position throughout the classical and early Hellenistic periods — squeezed between Athens and Corinth, periodically devastated by both, and briefly allied with whichever power posed the lesser immediate threat. By the time this bronze was struck, the city had survived Macedonian domination under Philip II and was navigating the fragmented politics of the Diadochi. Small civic bronzes like this served local markets when larger silver coinage had become scarce or politically complicated to produce.