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Drachm - Charmes
| Issuer | Erythrai |
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| Year | 325 BC - 315 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Herculean club depicted vertically at centre, its knotted shaft rendered in detail, flanked to the right by a bowcase (gorytus) shown in three-quarter perspective with incised decorative lines. To the left of the club, an owl stands facing left with head turned to face the viewer, a civic badge recalling Athenian monetary tradition. The Greek magistrate's legend EPY ΧΑΡΜΗΣ is disposed around the devices in two lines, identifying the issuing city of Erythrai and the responsible magistrate Charmes. |
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| Mintage | ND (325 BC - 315 BC) |
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Erythrai, one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, maintained its own silver coinage well into the Hellenistic transition period despite the enormous monetary disruption caused by Alexander's eastern campaigns flooding the Aegean with Macedonian silver. This issue falls squarely in that turbulent decade when many Ionian mints were reassessing whether continued local production was economically viable at all.
The Kinns reference places this firmly within the scholarly framework established through the Fitzwilliam collection's holdings, which remain a primary corpus for Erythraian numismatics.