Drachm

Teuthrania was a minor dynastic stronghold in Mysia, controlled in this period by Gongylus of Eretria and his descendants — Greek exiles rewarded with the territory by the Persian king for services rendered during Xerxes' invasion of Greece. The coinage they issued occupies an awkward numismatic space: Greek in form, but minted under Persian sufferance by a family that had betrayed the Greek cause. Very few examples are known, reflecting the town's limited political reach and brief period of autonomous coin production.