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Octobol - Menedemos
| Issuer | Chalkis (Euboia) |
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| Year | 180 BC - 146 BC |
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| Value | Octobol (4⁄3) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Chalkis was one of the few Euboian cities to maintain active silver coinage into the mid-second century BC, a period when most Greek civic mints had effectively collapsed under the commercial pressure of Athenian New Style tetradrachms and the growing dominance of Roman Republican denarii in eastern Mediterranean trade. The octobol — eight obols, or two-thirds of a drachm — is an awkward denomination by any standard, and its persistence at Chalkis suggests local commercial needs that rounder fractions didn't serve.
The magistrate name Menedemos appears on a narrow slice of the Chalkidian series, placing this piece within a tightly defined administrative moment documented in Picard's die study.