| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 117 | Auction date: 22 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 153 Price realized: Unsold | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| 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 |  |
