Tetrachalkon

Thebes had been razed by Alexander the Great in 335 BC as a brutal warning to any Greek city considering resistance, the population killed or enslaved and the buildings leveled — the poet Pindar's house reportedly spared as the sole exception. The city was refounded around 316 BC under Cassander, partly as a political gesture and partly to consolidate Macedonian influence in Boeotia. This issue falls within the early decades of that refounded city, a community rebuilding its civic infrastructure, including its coinage, from near nothing.