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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Euboia| > SH67899
Chalkis, Euboea, Greece, 338 - 330 B.C.
|Euboia|, |Chalkis,| |Euboea,| |Greece,| |338| |-| |330| |B.C.|, Khalkís, also Chalkis or Chalcis, is a city in eastern Greece, capital of the Aegean island department of Euboea (Évvoia), on the strait of Evripos near Athens. The ancient city, inhabited by Ionians, was an important commercial and industrial center. In the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Khalkís was a base for the establishment of colonies in Macedonia (there giving its name to the peninsula of Chalcidice) and in Sicily. It was successively thereafter an Athenian, a Macedonian, and a Roman possession.
SH67899. Silver drachm, Picard emission 4; BCD 126 - 127 (different dies); BMC Central p. 110, 48; cf. SNG Cop 433 (amphora), gVF, very nice toning, Chalkis (Chalkida, Greece) mint, weight 3.696g, maximum diameter 16.0mm, die axis 0o, 338 - 330 B.C.; obverse head of nymph Chalkis right, hair rolled, wearing necklace and single pendant earring; reverse X - AΛ (retrograde), eagle right, wings open, carrying snake in talons and beak, which winds around the birds body, kantharos in right field; SOLD




  







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