Didrachm

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.