Hexachalkon

Patrai — the modern Patras — had its civic coinage interrupted and complicated by the upheavals following Caesar's assassination in 44 BC. The city would later become Colonia Aroe Augusta Patrensis under Augustus, effectively ending its autonomous Greek-style bronze issues. This hexachalkon belongs to the last generation of that civic tradition, struck in the narrow window when the city still operated under its own authority before Roman colonial reorganization swept away the old municipal minting apparatus entirely.