Chalkon

Features

Issuer	Halos (Thessaly)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	360 BC - 340 BC
Value	Chalkon (1⁄48)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Bronze
Weight	3.71 g
Diameter	16.5 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 145681
References	HGC 4# 5 Oliver D. Hoover; 2014. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece / Volume 4: Achaia Phthiotis, Ainis, Magnesia, Akarnania, Aitolia, Lokris, Phokis, Boiotia, Euboia, Attica, Megaris, and Corinthia : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , BCD Thessaly I# 1056 Nomos (publisher); 2011. Nomos Auction / Volume 4: The BCD Collection. Coins of Thessaly. Nomos, Zürich, Switzerland. , Rogers Thessaly# 238 Edgar Rogers; 1932. The Copper Coinage of Thessaly. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Laureate head of Zeus Laphystios facing right with a thunderbolt behind his head.

Reverse

Helle, draped but with prominent breasts, seated on a ram facing right, holding her right hand on the ram’s head and her left on his back

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΑΛΕΩΝ

Mint

Halus, Thessaly, modern-day Almiros, Greece

Comments

Very few of these early, fine style coins survived the move of the city from its originally elevated location to the plain below, near the sea, where the Dutch School excavated "New Halos".

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (360 BC - 340 BC)

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