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Drachm
| Issuer | Erythrai |
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| Year | 480 BC - 450 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
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| Obverse description | Nude male figure, identified as the eponymous hero Erythros, striding to left while leading a horse by the reins held in his extended right hand; a goad is carried in his left hand. The composition is rendered in the archaic Ionian style, with the figure and animal occupying the full flan in a naturalistic yet stylized manner characteristic of early fifth-century BC western Anatolian coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Erythrai was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, situated on the Çeşme peninsula opposite Chios. This issue falls within the fraught decades following the Ionian Revolt's collapse and the Persian Wars, when Ionian cities were reasserting civic identity through coinage after years of Achaemenid suppression. The Munich reference as a variety suggests minor die differences from the recorded specimen — not unusual for a mint of this scale operating without rigid die standardization.