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Drachm
| Issuer | Chalkis |
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| Year | 338 BC - 308 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | An eagle depicted facing, with broad spread wings and finely engraved feather detail, grasping a writhing serpent in its beak and talons in a dynamic struggle. The city ethnic XAΛ (for Chalkis) is inscribed to the right in the field, while a monogram appears to the left, both rendered in archaic Greek characters. The composition fills the flan impressively, with the eagle's tail feathers sweeping to the bottom of the die. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Chalkis sits on the narrowest point of the Euripos strait, where the current reverses direction multiple times daily — a phenomenon ancient writers found inexplicable and that reportedly drove Aristotle to despair in his final years at nearby Chalkis. The city's coinage of this period reflects a community navigating the collapse of the Second Athenian Confederacy after Chaironeia in 338 BC and the subsequent imposition of Macedonian hegemony under Philip II.
The BCD collection, from which the primary reference derives, remains the definitive study of Euboian coinage; lot 137–139 in that sale established the die-linkage grouping still used to sequence this emission.