Dichalkon

Orchomenos in Arcadia — distinct from its more famous Boeotian namesake — was a minor polis whose independent bronze coinage reflects the fragmented political geography of the central Peloponnese following the collapse of the Arcadian League after 362 BC. The League's dissolution after the Battle of Mantinea left member cities scrambling to reassert municipal identity, and small bronze issues like this dichalkon were part of that reassertion. BCD 1580 is among the better-documented specimens from a series that survives in frustratingly small numbers.