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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Euboian League |
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| Year | 357 BC - 338 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΥΒ |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Euboian League was a federal alliance of the island's principal cities — Chalkis, Eretria, Histiaia, and others — whose political cohesion was always fragile and ultimately destroyed by Macedonian intervention. Philip II's campaign of 338 BC effectively ended the League as an autonomous issuing authority, making this the terminal bracket for the entire tetradrachm series. Coins struck in the years immediately before Chaironeia were circulating in an Aegean world where Macedonian power was visibly, rapidly expanding.
The BCD collection remains the benchmark reference for Euboian coinage; auction of that collection produced the closest thing to a die study the series has.