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Trichalkon
| Issuer | Sikyon |
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| Year | 225 BC - 200 BC |
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| Value | 1 Trichalkon = 3 Chalkoi = 3⁄48 Drachm (1⁄16) |
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| Reverse description | Tripod cauldron depicted facing, with three slender legs resting on a flat base and a rounded bowl surmounted by a looped handle at center, all enclosed within a laurel wreath composed of two symmetrical branches tied at the base. The wreath fills the coin's field and is rendered with finely detailed leaves; three pellets are visible in the field flanking the tripod, serving as decorative elements typical of Sikyonian civic bronze coinage. |
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| Mint | Sikyon |
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Sikyon's bronze issues of this period were produced under the shadow of the city's complicated relationship with the Achaean League, of which it became a leading member after Aratos of Sikyon orchestrated its liberation from Macedonian control in 251 BC. By the late third century, Sikyon functioned as effectively the administrative heart of the League, giving even its small bronze denominations a political weight out of proportion to their size.
The BCD Peloponnesos reference places this piece within one of the most rigorously documented regional collections ever assembled — the BCD collection, dispersed by Leu Numismatik, remains the benchmark against which Peloponnesian bronzes are still catalogued.