Ancient Greece - 290-270 BCE Island of Euboea, Chalkis Æ13 NGC XF

From the Faces in Time Collection of Ancient coinage (08).

Bronze AE 13. Obverse presents diademed and draped bust of Hera facing slightly to the right, diadem ornamented with discs and dangling fillets. Reverse offers eagle flying to the right, grasping a snake within its beak and talons. BCD Euboia 212, Picard Emission 44b, BMC Central p. 113, 76, HGC 4 1490 (S), SNG Cop. Dramatic green patina.

Chalcis-Vromousa, Head of a woman (Roman copy of a Greek original). Athens, National Archeological Museum.

The ancient city of Chalcis (also Chalkis or Khalkis) located in eastern Greece on the strait of Evripos near Athens, is currently the capital of Euboea. The ancient city, which was inhabited by Ionians, was a central business and industrial center. During the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Chalcis established colonies in Macedonia (giving its name to the peninsula of Chalcidice) and in Sicily. Therefore it was successively an Athenian, Macedonian, and Roman possession.