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Stater
| Issuer | Euboian League |
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| Year | 375 BC - 357 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Facing right, the head of the nymph Euboia, the eponymous deity of the island, depicted in three-quarter profile. Her hair is elaborately rolled and gathered, and she wears a ring-shaped annular earring. The ethnic inscription ΕΥΒ appears in the field, serving as the abbreviated legend identifying the issuing authority. The portrait displays the refined Archaic-to-Classical transitional style typical of Chalcidian and Euboian coinage of the fourth century BC. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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The Euboian League was a federal alliance of the island's major poleis — Chalkis, Eretria, Histiaia, and others — whose coins circulated across a commercially active stretch of the Aegean during the fourth century. The League's staters were struck to the Euboiic weight standard, which also underpinned the coinage of Corinth and several western Greek colonies, giving these pieces broader transactional reach than purely local issues.
The precise dating window corresponds to a period of intense Theban interference in Euboian affairs, culminating in the League's effective dissolution after Theban intervention around 357 BC.