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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Eretria |
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| Year | 510 BC - 490 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | Ε |
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| Mint | Eretria |
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Eretria's coinage from this period is inseparable from the city's destruction. In 490 BC, a Persian fleet under Datis and Artaphernes besieged the city for six days before traitors within opened the gates. The population was deported to Ardericca in Cissia, near Susa, where Herodotus notes they were still living generations later. Coins struck in the years immediately preceding that sack represent the final output of an independent Eretrian mint — one that would not resume meaningful production for decades.