Drachm: Head of Herakles (obverse); Club, Bow Case (reverse)

387–300 BCE Diameter: 2 cm (13/16 in.) Source image
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One of many city-states to include the hero Herakles–here shown beardless and wearing his lion-skin–on its coinage, Erythrae lies on the Ionian coast, near the island of Chios. The reverse features the inscriptions ΕΡΥ (for Erythrae) and ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ, likely the name of a magistr...

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