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Chalkon
| Issuer | Meliboia |
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| Year | 352 BC - 344 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Rogers#392, BCD Thessaly I#1197, BCD Thessaly II#450 |
| Obverse description | Facing right, the youthful head of the nymph Meliboeia rendered in low relief, her hair gathered and tied in a bun at the nape of the neck, and adorned with a pendant earring. A single Greek letter Λ (lambda) appears in the field behind the neck, serving as a control mark or magistrate initial. The portrait is executed in the archaic-transitional Thessalian style, with fine hair detailing and a delicate profile. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Meliboia was a small coastal polis on the eastern Thessalian seaboard, tucked beneath Mount Ossa along the Magnesian shore. The city issued bronze coinage only briefly, and the tight date range here likely reflects the period before Macedonian expansion under Philip II effectively absorbed the region's autonomous civic minting. Few Thessalian poleis of this scale produced bronze at all — most relied on larger neighbors for small-denomination currency.