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Significance of „Boiotian League/Chalkis" Silver Issue 27number of archaic Greek coins. Even if it is assumed to stand for Chalkis,there is no reason to assume it indicates a political combination with theBoiotian League.A wheel appears as the reverse type on some of Chalkis' early coinage, butit is not the only or even the characteristic reverse type. The wheel on theshield/wheel coin, moreover, is not exactly like the wheel on any issue thatis certainly from Chalkis. W.P. Wallace has pointed out that "this is the onlyChalkis wheel to have an axle-hole, and its fabric seems more Eretrian thanChalkidian."17 A wheel appears on a number of other contemporarycoinages, including Makedonian issues of a style generally similar to Euboiancoinages and the shield/wheel issue."The Berlin specimen is clipped; its original weight cannot be ascertained.The Paris specimen weighs 16.80 g, in reasonable agreement with both theEuboian and Attic standards for the stater.'9 The stater weighs the sametheoretical 17.2 g in both standards, but the Euboian stater was divided intothirds and sixths while the Attic was divided into halves and quarters. In theabsence of fractional denominations, the two standards cannot bedistinguished. Euboian cities first struck coins to the Euboian standard butchanged to the Attic system of divisions before 500 B.C. The Chalkidikesimilarly changed from the Euboian to the Attic system of fractions at anearly date. Both the Euboian and Attic standards were, of course, alsoemployed elsewhere. Boiotia coined to the Aigenitic standard rather than theEuboian, but the first certain Boiotian coins of Aigenitic standard were notstruck until a decade or more after the shield/wheel issue.2° It is not beyondpossibility that some Boiotian city, perhaps Tanagra, employed the Euboianstandard for an abortive issue considerably before it commenced regularcoinage.Despite these doubts, it is likely that the shield/wheel issue was in factstruck at Chalkis sometime around 520 B.C. Style, fabric, and weight agreebetter with contemporary Euboian issues than with any others. Salvaging theprobable Chalkidian origin of the issue does not, however, resurrect17W.P. Wallace, "Early," p. 38 n. 2.18E.g. coins of the Ichnai (BMC Macedonia p. 76 no. 1; Price and Waggoner, Asyut, nos.40-44), other Thraco-Macedonian issues (BMC Macedonia pp. 154-155 nos. 16-21), aswell as the EMINAKO coins from Olbia (Babelon, Traite 113, Paris 1912, 272, giving theissue to Thrace; modern opinion is in favor of Olbia as the mint.) These coinages, of course,are struck to different weight standards from the Attic-Euboian standard of theshield/wheel issue. Wheel types are common throughout the Greek world, from Massaliathrough Baktria.19The coin has suffered a test cut on the obverse, which should not have altered its weight.The loss of 0.4 g is most likely due to corrosion, which affected many of the coins in theTaranto hoard greatly. Kraay, Archaic, 88-91, 329-330.20 Note 11 supra.