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Stater
| Issuer | Chalkidean League |
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| Year | 365 BC - 360 BC |
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| Value | Gold Stater (20) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing left, rendered in fine archaic-to-classical Greek style with delicately detailed curling locks of hair bound by a laurel wreath. The facial features are elegantly modeled, with a refined profile characteristic of northern Greek celature of the period. The neck is bare, and the portrait fills the flan with confident artistry, the hair cascading in tightly engraved volutes behind the ear. The field is smooth and unadorned, with no legend present on this side. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Chalkidean League was dissolved by Sparta in 379 BC, its cities forcibly separated under the Peace of Olanthus. The brief gold stater issues attributed to the 360s therefore post-date the League's formal dissolution and almost certainly relate to its partial reconstitution under Macedonian pressure — a political entity reasserting itself in precious metal at precisely the moment its survival was least certain.