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Trichalkon Megalopolis
| Issuer | Arcadian League |
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| Year | 300 BC - 275 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | Π-M |
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The Arcadian League was a federal experiment born from Epaminondas's restructuring of the Peloponnese after Leuctra in 371 BC — Megalopolis itself was founded as its federal capital, a synoikism of some forty Arcadian villages designed to act as a permanent counterweight to Spartan power. Federal bronze coinage of this type circulated within that political framework, funding the institutions of a confederacy that was already fracturing by the mid-fourth century.
By the time this trichalkon was struck, the League had long shed its original anti-Spartan urgency and was navigating the turbulent successor wars following Alexander's death.