Ionia, Erythrai: Anonymous (ca. 325-280 BCE) AR Obol (SNG Copenhagen 586)

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Ionia, Erythrai: Anonymous (ca. 325-280 BCE) AR Obol (SNG Copenhagen 586; SNG von Aulock 1951)

Obv: Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress
Rev: EPYΘ / ΔIOΓEIΘH Club and bow in bowcase


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Diopeithes (ΔIOΠEIΘHΣ) would be the magistrate under whos authority the coin was minted. So not fully anonymous.
Being an obol that would probably mean < 12 mm diameter ? The small size makes it just more impressive.