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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Bithynia| > GS82524
Kalchedon, Bithynia, 4th Century B.C.
|Bithynia|, |Kalchedon,| |Bithynia,| |4th| |Century| |B.C.|, The position of Chalcedon, on the eastern shore of the Bosporus, was not as favorable as that of Byzantion on the opposite side. The Persian Megabazus (Herod. iv. 144) said the founders of Chalcedon must have been blind, for Chalcedon was settled seventeen years before Byzantium; and the settlers, we must suppose, had the choice of the two places.
GS82524. Silver siglos, SNG BM 112; SNGvA 482; SNG Cop 348; BMC Pontus p. 124, 4; HGC 7 517, gVF, Calchedon mint, weight 5.375g, maximum diameter 17.8mm, 4th century B.C.; obverse bull standing left atop ear of grain, KAΛX above; reverse quadripartite incuse square of mill-sail pattern; SOLD











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