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Tetradrachm - Epiteles
| Issuer | Eretria |
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| Year | 180 BC - 160 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΡΕΤΡΙΕΩΝ ΕΠΙΤΕΛΗΣ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Eretria's silver tetradrachm coinage of the second century BC was struck under a series of named magistrates, of whom Epiteles is among the better-documented. The city had been sacked by Rome's ally Attalus I of Pergamon in 198 BC during operations against Philip V of Macedon, and again devastated in 198–197 BC by Roman forces under Flamininus. That Eretria was still producing civic silver of this weight and quality by the 180s suggests a faster economic recovery than the literary sources imply.
The Lockett provenance — collection of Richard Cyril Lockett, dispersed by Glendining's in 1955–1961 — places this piece among a generation of coins that passed through the great mid-century British collections before systematic die studies were possible.