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| Issuer | Chalkis (Euboia) |
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| Year | 465 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Eagle displayed in right-facing flight, rendered with finely engraved feathered wings spread wide; the bird grips a writhing serpent firmly in both its talons and beak. The musculature and plumage of the eagle are executed with considerable artisanal confidence, characteristic of early classical Euboian coinage. The field is plain and unlettered, the design occupying nearly the full flan. No legend or exergual inscription is present. |
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| Mint | Chalcis, Euboea, Greece |
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Chalkis controlled the Euripus strait — the narrow, famously unpredictable channel between Euboia and the Boeotian mainland — and the city's coinage circulated heavily through the commercial networks that depended on that crossing. The 460s BC placed this coin squarely in the decade following the Persian Wars, when Euboian cities were rebuilding trade relationships disrupted by Xerxes' campaigns and the subsequent Delian League reorganization, to which Chalkis contributed tribute rather than ships.
The BCD Euboia corpus remains the definitive reference for this series, assembled from auction records over decades by a single anonymous collector whose Euboian holdings were unmatched in modern times.