Pelanor
πέλανορ
Pelanor (πέλανορ) is mentioned by Hesychius (s. v.) as a coin in use at Sparta, equivalent to four χαλκοῖ or half an Attic obol. Plutarch (Apophtheg. Lacon. p. 903) says that it was an iron coin of the weight of an Aeginetan mina (20 Troy ounces). These cumbrous coins seem to have constituted the coinage of Sparta down to the time of Alexander the Great; at least, no gold, silver, or copper coins of Sparta of an earlier date than B.C. 310 are extant. (Brit. Mus. Catalogue of Coins, Peloponnesus, p. xlvii.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.