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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Chalkis (Euboia) |
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| Year | 500 BC |
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| Currency | Attic drachm |
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| Mint | Chalcis, Euboea, Greece |
| Mintage | ND (-500) |
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Chalkis was one of the dominant minting cities of Archaic Greece, and its coinage circulated well beyond Euboia itself — Chalkidian colonies from Sicily to the northern Aegean carried the type across the Mediterranean world. The Asyut hoard reference places this issue among coins recovered from Egypt, consistent with the broad commercial reach of Euboic-weight silver in the late Archaic period.
The Euboic weight standard this tetradrachm was struck to — closely related to the Attic standard — was among the most widely accepted in early Greek commerce before Athenian coinage came to dominate international trade after the Persian Wars.