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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Euboia| > SH35422
Chalkis, Euboea, Greece, c. 290 - 271 B.C.
|Euboia|, |Chalkis,| |Euboea,| |Greece,| |c.| |290| |-| |271| |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.
SH35422. Silver drachm, BCD Euboia 178; BMC Central p. 110, 53; Picard emission 30; SNG Cop 438, Choice VF, of the finest style, toned, Chalkis (Chalkida, Greece) mint, weight 3.482g, maximum diameter 17.1mm, die axis 270o, c. 290 - 271 B.C.; obverse head of nymph Chalkis right, wearing hair rolled, earring and necklace; reverse XAΛ, eagle flying right, carrying snake in talons and beak, kerykeion (caduceus) right below; ex BCD collection, ex Wallace collection; SOLD











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