Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 116Auction date: 18 January 2024
Lot number: 115

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Macedon, Chalkidian League AR Tetradrachm. Olynthos, circa 351 BC. Annikas, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo to right / Kithara; XAΛKIΔEΩN around, ΕΠΙ ANNIKA below; all within shallow round incuse. SNG ANS 509 (same dies); Robinson & Clement Group U, 120 (A76/P103); HGC 3.1, 500. 14.44g, 23mm, 12h.

Near Extremely Fine; attractive deep cabinet tone.

The growing influence and expansionist aims of the Chalkidian League led by Olynthos in 382 BC led to calls from Amyntas of Macedon, as well as the cities of Akanthos and Apollonia (who anticipated imminent conquest by the League), for Spartan intervention to check the League's power. Sparta, keen to reassert its presence in northern Greece, consented and a force of 10,000 was mobilised and dispatched against the League.

After several years of protracted but indecisive warfare, Olynthos agreed to dissolve the Chalkidian League. However, this dissolution appears to have been little more than a token formality, since in the following year the League appears among the members of the Athenian naval confederacy, and twenty years later Demosthenes reported the power of the League as being much greater than before the Spartan expedition.

Estimate: 3000 GBP

Match 1:
Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG > Online Auction 198 | SilverAuction date: 25 February 2024
Lot number: 11

Price realized: 1,900 EUR   (Approx. 2,054 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Macedon. Chalkidian League, Olynthos circa 351 BC. Annikas, magistrate
Tetradrachm AR

24 mm, 14,44 g

Laureate head of Apollo to right / Kithara; XAΛKIΔEΩN around, ΕΠΙ ANNIKA below; all within shallow round incuse.


Nearly Extremely Fine. Attractive cabinet tone.

SNG ANS 509 (same dies); Robinson & Clement Group U, 120 (A76/P103); HGC 3.1, 500.

The growing influence and expansionist aims of the Chalkidian League led by Olynthos in 382 BC led to calls from Amyntas of Macedon, as well as the cities of Akanthos and Apollonia (who anticipated imminent conquest by the League), for Spartan intervention to check the League's power. Sparta, keen to reassert its presence in northern Greece, consented and a force of 10,000 was mobilised and dispatched against the League



Starting price: 1750 EUR

Match 2:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 117Auction date: 22 February 2024
Lot number: 153

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Macedon, Chalkidian League AR Tetradrachm. Olynthos, circa 357 BC. Straton, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo to right / Kithara; XAΛKIΔEΩN around, ΕΠΙ ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ below; all within shallow round incuse. SNG ANS 500 (same obv. die); Robinson & Clement Group O, obv. die A59; HGC 3.1, 500. 14.43g, 23mm, 11h.

Good Very Fine; deposit on reverse. Very Rare.

The growing influence and expansionist aims of the Chalkidian League led by Olynthos in 382 BC led to calls from Amyntas of Macedon, as well as the cities of Akanthos and Apollonia (who anticipated imminent conquest by the League), for Spartan intervention to check the League's power. Sparta, keen to reassert its presence in northern Greece, consented and a force of 10,000 was mobilised and dispatched against the League.

After several years of protracted but indecisive warfare, Olynthos agreed to dissolve the Chalkidian League. However, this dissolution appears to have been little more than a token formality, since in the following year the League appears among the members of the Athenian naval confederacy, and twenty years later Demosthenes reported the power of the League as being much greater than before the Spartan expedition.

Estimate: 2000 GBP

Match 3:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119Auction date: 24 April 2024
Lot number: 442

Price realized: Unsold
Lot description:


Macedon, Chalkidian League AR Tetradrachm. Olynthos, circa 357 BC. Straton, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo to right / Kithara; XAΛKIΔEΩN around, ΕΠΙ ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ below; all within shallow round incuse. SNG ANS 500 (same obv. die); Robinson & Clement Group O, obv. die A59; HGC 3.1, 500. 14.43g, 23mm, 11h.

Good Very Fine; deposit on reverse. Very Rare.

The growing influence and expansionist aims of the Chalkidian League led by Olynthos in 382 BC led to calls from Amyntas of Macedon, as well as the cities of Akanthos and Apollonia (who anticipated imminent conquest by the League), for Spartan intervention to check the League's power. Sparta, keen to reassert its presence in northern Greece, consented and a force of 10,000 was mobilised and dispatched against the League.

After several years of protracted but indecisive warfare, Olynthos agreed to dissolve the Chalkidian League. However, this dissolution appears to have been little more than a token formality, since in the following year the League appears among the members of the Athenian naval confederacy, and twenty years later Demosthenes reported the power of the League as being much greater than before the Spartan expedition.

Estimate: 1500 GBP

Match 4:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 116Auction date: 18 January 2024
Lot number: 114

Price realized: 2,200 GBP   (Approx. 2,785 USD / 2,567 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Macedon, Chalkidian League AR Tetradrachm. Olynthos, circa 353 BC. Archidamos, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo to left / Kithara; XAΛKIΔEΩN around, [EΠ]Ι AΡXΙΔΑMOΥ in small letters above; all within shallow round incuse. SNG ANS 492 (same dies); Robinson & Clement Group S, 104 (A69/P89); HGC 3.1, 499. 14.40g, 24mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine.

Estimate: 3000 GBP

Match 5:
Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 140

Price realized: 1,500 GBP   (Approx. 1,900 USD / 1,749 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Macedon, Chalkidian League AR Tetradrachm. Olynthos, circa 383/2 BC. Laureate head of Apollo to right / Kithara with seven strings; XAΛKIΔEΩN around. Robinson & Clement Group H, 27a (A22/P24); SNG ANS 474 (same dies); HGC 3.1, 498. 14.33g, 25mm, 7h.

Good Very Fine; minor flan flaw to rev., attractive deep cabinet tone over lustrous metal.

The growing influence and expansionist aims of the Chalkidian League led by Olynthos in 382 BC led to calls from Amyntas of Macedon, as well as the cities of Akanthos and Apollonia (who anticipated imminent conquest by the League), for Spartan intervention to check the League's power. Sparta, keen to reassert its presence in northern Greece, consented and a force of 10,000 was mobilised and dispatched against the League.

After several years of protracted but indecisive warfare, Olynthos agreed to dissolve the Chalkidian League. However, this dissolution appears to have been little more than a token formality, since in the following year the League appears among the members of the Athenian naval confederacy, and twenty years later Demosthenes reported the power of the League as being much greater than before the Spartan expedition.

Estimate: 2000 GBP