Chalkon - Metrodoros

Smyrna in this period was navigating the complex aftermath of Pergamene dominance in western Anatolia, issuing small bronze fractions for local market transactions while the city rebuilt its civic infrastructure following its refounding — ancient Smyrna had been largely abandoned for centuries before Alexander's successors re-established it on a new site near Mount Pagos. The magistrate name Metrodoros appearing on this issue places it within a series where individual officials were named on bronze fractions, a practice that helped establish civic accountability in coinage at the sub-drachm level.