Cleveland Museum of Art

Drachm: Female Head (obverse); Eagle (reverse)

Date

337–308 BCE

Medium

silver

Culture

Greek, minted at Chalkis (Euboia)

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Minted after a period of Athenian domination, this coin from Chalkis features two traditional symbols of its home island Euboia: a female head and an eagle battling a snake. What distinguishes this issue from earlier types, however, are the smooth, rounded face and deep-set eyes of the woman on the obverse, who may represent the goddess Euboia herself. On the reverse is Chalkis’s 3-letter abbreviation ΧΑΛ (CHAL).

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