Dichalkon - Perseus

Issued under Perseus, the last Macedonian king, these bronzes were struck during a reign defined by his ultimately failed attempt to resist Roman expansion in Greece. The Third Macedonian War ended at Pydna in 168 BC, where Lucius Aemilius Paullus destroyed the Macedonian phalanx in under an hour. Perseus fled, surrendered shortly after, and was paraded through Rome in Paullus's triumph before dying in captivity at Alba Fucens around 166 BC. The kingdom was dissolved and partitioned into four client republics — no Macedonian royal coinage would follow.