Hemiobol

Chalkis lost its autonomy after the Battle of Chaironeia in 338 BC, when Macedonian garrisons were installed across Euboia. This tiny fraction was struck during the decades of that occupation, a period when the city retained nominal civic coinage rights even as Philip II and then Alexander effectively controlled the region. The BCD specimen catalogued under #134 represents one of the more carefully documented examples of what is otherwise a poorly understood fractional series.