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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Euboia| > GB86655
Chalkis, Euboea, Greece, c. 290 - 273/271 B.C.
|Euboia|, |Chalkis,| |Euboea,| |Greece,| |c.| |290| |-| |273/271| |B.C.|, Ancient Chalkis (also Khalkís or Chalcis), in eastern Greece on the strait of Evripos near Athens, is today the capital of Euboea. The ancient city, inhabited by Ionians, was an important commercial and industrial center. In the 8th and 7th centuries B.C., Chalkis established colonies in Macedonia (giving its name to the peninsula of Chalcidice) and in Sicily. It was successively thereafter an Athenian, a Macedonian, and a Roman possession.
GB86655. Bronze AE 13, BCD Euboea 192 (this coin), Picard emission 35a, EF/aEF, brown patina, Chalkis (Chalkida, Greece) mint, weight 1.966g, maximum diameter 13.3mm, die axis 180o, c. 290 - 273/271 B.C.; obverse bust of Hera facing and turned slightly to right, with necklace, diadem ornamented with ribbons; reverse eagle wings open, snake in its beak and winding around its body, XAΛ above, rose in right field; from the Jyrki Muona Collection; ex Lanz auction 111 (25 Nov 2002), lot 192; ex BCD Collection; SOLD











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