Diobol

Paros had already established itself as a significant silver-issuing polis well before this period, but the island's output contracted sharply following the disastrous Parian expedition of 489 BC — when Miltiades' failed siege left the city largely unmolested but the Athenian general discredited and ruined. By the mid-fourth century, Parian coinage circulated within a Cycladic economy increasingly dominated by Rhodian and Athenian commercial networks, making small silver fractions like this diobol the practical currency of local exchange rather than long-distance trade.