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Chalkon
| Issuer | Lamia |
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| Year | 400 BC - 375 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of the nymph Lamia facing right, her hair arranged in soft waves and bound, adorned with an earring and a necklace. The portrait is rendered in fine archaic-to-classical transitional style, with delicate facial features characteristic of Thessalian civic coinage of the early fourth century BC. The field is plain, with no legend or inscription. |
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| Reverse description | The hero Philoktetes, wearing a pilos helmet, depicted reclining to the left upon rocky ground, his raised right hand extended while his left hand rests upon the rocks. A strung bow and a quiver of arrows are displayed to the left of the figure, referencing the mythological hero's celebrated role as a master archer. The ethnic legend ΛΑΜΙ appears in the field, identifying the issuing city of Lamia in Thessaly. |
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Lamia, the principal city of Malis in southern Thessaly, issued bronze coinage during a period when the region was caught between competing powers — Macedon to the north, the Boeotian League pressing westward, and Thessalian dynasts jockeying for local dominance. Autonomous civic bronze issues of this type were modest instruments of local exchange, unlikely to travel far beyond the Spercheios valley.
The BCD collection references here are significant: the two BCD Thessaly sales (Nomos AG, 2011 and 2012) remain the definitive benchmark for pricing and attribution of Thessalian bronzes, and Rogers #385 predates both by a century without the die study depth they introduced.