Drachm

Euhesperides was a Cyrenaican Greek colony on the Libyan coast — the site is modern Benghazi — that maintained a precarious existence between the expanding Carthaginian sphere to the west and the Cyrenaean Greeks to the east. The city was eventually abandoned entirely around 249 BC when its population relocated to the newly founded Berenice nearby. Coinage attributed to Euhesperides is extraordinarily rare; the BMC Greek records only a handful of specimens, and the Boston MFA piece remains one of the principal reference examples for the type.