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Æ11 - Dionysiphanes
| Issuer | Erythrai |
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| Year | 375 BC - 360 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A club of Herakles depicted diagonally across the field, with a bow and quiver arranged beneath it, all rendered in relief against a plain background. The magistrate's name ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΦΑΝΗΣ is inscribed around the devices in Greek characters, with the city ethnic ΕΡΥ (abbreviation for Erythrai) positioned in the upper field above the club. The composition is characteristic of Erythraian civic bronze issues attributing types to the cult of Herakles, the city's patron deity. |
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| Mint | Erythrai |
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Erythrai, one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, sat on the western coast of Asia Minor directly across from the island of Chios. The magistrate name Dionysiphanes appearing on this issue places it within a period when Erythrai was navigating the competing pressures of Athenian naval dominance and Persian inland authority — the city had switched hands more than once in the preceding decades and would do so again.
BMC Greek 72–73 treats these as a paired sequence, likely sharing obverse die stock.