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Macedon, Chalkidian League AR Tetradrachm. Olynthos, circa 358-348 BC. Laureate head of Apollo to right / Kithara with seven strings; XAΛKIΔEΩN around, [magistrate's name](?) below. AMNG III/2, 12; SNG ANS 497 (same obv. die); SNG Lockett 1313-5; Boston MFA 581-2; Pozzi 753 (same obv. die); HGC 3.1, 500. 14.52g, 24mm, 6h.
Near Extremely Fine.
From the Dr. Ulisses Vaz Pardal collection;
Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 284, 26 September 2012, lot 2262.
The growing influence and expansionist aims of the Chalkidian League led by Olynthos had in 382 BC led to calls from Amyntas of Macedon, as well as 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, though 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. Olynthos itself is at this time spoken of as a city of the first rank, and the Chalkidian League then comprised thirty-two cities.
Near Extremely Fine.
From the Dr. Ulisses Vaz Pardal collection;
Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Auction 284, 26 September 2012, lot 2262.
The growing influence and expansionist aims of the Chalkidian League led by Olynthos had in 382 BC led to calls from Amyntas of Macedon, as well as 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, though 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. Olynthos itself is at this time spoken of as a city of the first rank, and the Chalkidian League then comprised thirty-two cities.