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Trichalkon
| Issuer | Sikyon |
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| Year | 196 BC - 146 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Trident upright in the central field, its three prongs rising prominently, flanked on either side by a olive branch bearing multiple leaves curving outward symmetrically. The composition is enclosed within a plain border, with the branches framing the trident in a decorative wreath-like arrangement. The motif alludes to Poseidon, patron deity associated with the Sikyonian region, and is typical of Hellenistic civic bronze issues. |
| Reverse script | Ancient Greek |
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Sikyon's bronze coinage of this period reflects the city's uneasy position within the Achaean League — politically absorbed but retaining enough civic identity to strike its own types. The city had been forcibly relocated and refounded by Demetrios Poliorketes in 303 BC, and that disruption never fully left its institutional memory. Municipal issues like this trichalkon were one of the few remaining expressions of local autonomy.
The BCD collection, assembled by a single anonymous European collector over decades, remains the defining reference for Peloponnesian bronzes precisely because public institutions largely ignored them.