| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction 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. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| 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 |  |
