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Elateia was the largest city in Phokis and guarded the principal route through the Kephisos valley into central Greece — a strategic position that made it repeatedly contested during the Macedonian Wars. This issue falls squarely within the period following the Roman defeat of Philip V at Kynoskephalai in 197 BC, when Phokian cities regained autonomy under Roman patronage but operated in a politically unstable vacuum. Local bronze coinage of this type likely served immediate regional exchange needs as the district reorganized under the new order Flamininus had imposed on Greece.