Chalkon

Features

Issuer Proerna (Thessaly)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 306 BC - 283 BC
Value Chalkon (1⁄48)
Currency Drachm
Composition Bronze
Weight 2.36 g
Diameter 14.0 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
170824
References SNG Munich 12# 178,
Katerine Liampe; 2007. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland / Heft 12. Thessalien - Illyrien - Epirus - Korkyra : Staatliche Münzsammlung München. Hirmer Verlag, Munich, Germany.
BCD Thessaly I# 1328
Nomos (editor); 10 May 2011. Coins of Thessaly : The BCD Collection (Public auction 4). Nomos, Zürich, Switzerland.

Obverse

Head of a nymph facing, her head turned slightly to the right, wearing a simple hair band and a pendant earring in her right ear and her hair in disorder

Reverse

Demeter standing facing, her head to left, holding long torch in her left hand and two ears of wheat in her right. To her left the monogram ΦI

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΠΡΩΕΡΝΙΩΝ

Mint

Proerna, Thessaly, Greece

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (306 BC - 283 BC) 

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