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Trichalkon Megalopolis
| Issuer | Arcadian League |
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| Year | 340 BC - 275 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Arcadian League was a short-lived federal experiment, founded in 370 BC following the Theban general Epaminondas's decisive victory at Leuctra and the subsequent liberation of Messenia from Spartan control. Megalopolis itself was founded in 368 BC as a deliberate synoikism — some forty Arcadian communities were forcibly amalgamated into a single city designed to anchor the new Peloponnesian balance of power against Sparta. The League fractured badly after 362 BC following the death of Epaminondas at Mantinea, though federal bronze coinage continued to be struck well into the third century, minted at Megalopolis as the League's administrative center.