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Chalkon
| Issuer | Kierion |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Zeus facing right, rendered in archaic Thessalian style with defined facial features including a beard and thick hair bound by a laurel wreath. The portrait is set within a broad, plain field typical of early Greek bronze coinage. The modeling is bold and slightly rough, consistent with provincial hammered bronze production of the fourth century BC. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Kierion was a minor Thessalian city in the Histiaiotis region, and its bronze issues of this period are among the more obscure products of fourth-century Greek civic minting. The city is better known from ancient sources as a dependency within the shifting political structures of Thessaly than as an independent numismatic authority, which makes its autonomous bronze output genuinely notable.
The BCD Thessaly II reference places this among a tightly catalogued group assembled from one of the most rigorous Thessalian collections ever formed.