Octopus Eretria Ancient Greek Coin Copy pendant jewelry handmade silverREPRO ANCIENT GREEK COIN OCTOPUS ERETRIA counts among the first cities in Greece proper to strike their own silver coins. The analysis of several hoards has shown that the earliest coins struck in Eretria were contemporary with the first owls in Athens. This Eretria coinage is dated ca. 520 510 BC, at the time of the fall of the Pisistratus and the end of the Athenian Wappenmnzen (heraldic coins). On their obverse, Eretrias coins bear an image of a