Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Tetrobol
| Issuer | Histiaia |
|---|---|
| Year | 350 BC - 300 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Histiaia Mint |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Histiaia, the northernmost polis of Euboea, struck these small silver pieces in considerable volume following the city's reconstitution after 338 BC, when Philip II of Macedon — having crushed the Greek coalition at Chaeronea — permitted the population to return from the expulsion Athenians had imposed a generation earlier. The type's long production run reflects a stable, if politically diminished, local economy under Macedonian hegemony.
The BCD Euboia collection, catalogued through a Lanz auction in 2008, remains the definitive reference for die studies on this series.