Drachm

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.