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Didrachm
| Issuer | Eretria |
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| Year | 500 BC - 465 BC |
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| Reference(s) | BCD Euboia#307, Jameson#1172, BMC Greek#28 cf. |
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| Obverse script | Greek (retrograde) |
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| Mint | Eretria |
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Eretria's coinage of this period reflects the city's position as a major Euboean trading hub before the Persian Wars reshaped the Aegean economy entirely. The city was sacked and its population deported to Susa by Darius I in 490 BC — those inhabitants never returned — making any issue spanning that destruction an artifact of a community violently interrupted mid-production. Whether specific dies predate or postdate the sack is rarely determinable, but the type continued under whatever civic administration reconstituted itself afterward.
The BCD Euboia specimen cited as #307 passed through the Leu auction of that collection in 2008, providing one of the better-documented provenance chains for this type.