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Kalchedon

An ancient Greek maritime city in Bithynia, Asia Minor, situated opposite Byzantium.

Kind: city-state
Region: Near East, Asia
Recorded period: 685 BC – present

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Kalchedon, drachm — Quadripartite quadratum incusum with dotted fields (CN type 24240)

Photograph: Lübke und Wiedeman; Corpus Nummorum (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

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Kalchedon, drachm — Quadripartite quadratum incusum with dotted fields (CN type 24240)

387/6–340 BC

Drachm in silver struck at Kalchedon, dated 387/6–340 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 24240 (period: Classical Period; issuing authority type: city). Obverse: Bull standing left on ear;in front of him caduceus and monogr…

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