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Olynthos/Chalkidian League, Macedon (Greece) - AR tetradrachm,
c. 360 B.C.,
Obverse:
Laureate head of Apollo r.
Reverse:
Lyre; : of the Chalkidians.
Provenance: Bank Leu, 1972.
Bibliography: D.M. Robinson and P.A. Clement,
Excavations at Olynthos IX:
the Chalcidic mint and the excavation coins found in 1928-1934 (Baltimore 1938).


Olynthos was one of several towns founded by the Euboian
city Chalkis in the three-fingered peninsula in southern Macedonia
that became known as the Chalkidike.
In the early years of the Peloponnesian War several of the cities in the Chalkidike formed the Chalikidian League,
which was based in Olynthos and which issued its own federal coinage.
The coinage of the League began c. 432 B.C., but it was only c. 420 B.C. that its most well-known coins, the tetradrachms, appeared. On the obverse was the patron deity of the League, Apollo, the major deity of its mother city, Chalkis, and on the reverse one of his major attributes, the lyre.
The coins can be dated by stylistic changes in the head of Apollo and, in many cases, by magistrates' names on the reverses.

he tetradrachms continued as an important regular series until the coinage of the League ended with the rise of Philip II of Macedon,
who completely destroyed Olynthos and dissolved the League in 348 B.C. Philip, however, acknowledged the importance
of the coins for the area when he adopted
the League's main coin type, the head of Apollo,
for his own gold coins.

Пред време някой от вардарци ми се хвалеше със хубавите златни монети, сечени ит Филип (и после от Александър и други елинистични владетели),
Не е лошо да знае, че те са били сечени в Олинтос ,
на Халкидическия полуостров(Южна Македония),
стотина години предi Филип да разбие олинтяните и разпусне съюза им.
След това, той взел "назаем" уменията им и символа на
града-Аполон, чиято глава е изобразена
на монетата.
Имам чувството, че "портретите на Александър"
не случайно имат определено сходство с
тази изобразителна традиция.