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Drachm
| Issuer | Emporion |
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| Year | 350 BC - 250 BC |
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| Value | 1 Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Persephone (or Ceres) facing left, her elaborately styled hair rendered in fine engraved strands swept back and adorned with a decorative wreath or grain-ear ornament, with visible pendant earring and necklace. The facial features are modelled in the refined Greek style characteristic of the Emporion mint. The ethnic legend ENΠOPITΩΝ appears in the field to the left of the bust. The overall treatment reflects strong influence from Syracusan coinage of the late Classical period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ENΠOPITΩΝ (Translation: Emporion) |
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Emporion — modern Empúries on the Catalan coast — was a Greek colony founded by Phocaeans from Massalia, and its coinage served as the primary hard currency circulating among indigenous Iberian communities in the northeastern peninsula during this period. These drachms were so widely trusted and imitated that local Iberian tribes eventually struck their own copies, often debased, which numismatists now classify separately as "dracmas ibéricas." The prototype itself, catalogued by Heiss as his first entry in Iberian coinage, reflects just how foundational Emporion's monetary output was to the entire region's commercial framework.