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Tetradrachm - Charidamos
| Issuer | Eretria |
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| Year | 180 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Demeter facing right, her hair elegantly tied behind her head and adorned with a triple-pendant earring and a beaded necklace. A bow and quiver are depicted over her shoulder, attributes evoking both her agrarian and huntress associations. The portrait is rendered in the Hellenistic style, with fine facial detail characteristic of late Euboean coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΡΕΤΡΙΕΩΝ ΧΑΡΙΔΑΜΟΣ |
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Eretria's coinage in the second century BC reflects a city navigating Roman dominance with increasing difficulty. By 180 BC the polis had long since lost its classical-era prominence, and civic silver issues of this weight were becoming rare as Roman commercial networks restructured regional monetary circulation. The magistrate name Charidamos appears on a handful of known specimens, placing this among the more sparsely documented issues of the late Eretrian series.
The "var." citations against both Jameson 2075 and SNG Berry 625 suggest a die combination not precisely matched in either reference — a detail worth tracking as more examples surface.