Drachm

Emporion — modern Empúries on the Catalan coast — was a Phocaean Greek colony that maintained remarkable commercial independence even as Carthaginian and later Roman power reshaped the western Mediterranean. These drachms were struck primarily to facilitate trade with Iberian tribes in the interior, who accepted Greek coinage readily and occasionally imitated it, producing the so-called "Iberian imitations" that numismatists sometimes struggle to distinguish from official issues without careful die analysis.

The FAB 1118 attribution places this among the earlier emissions of the series, before the progressive stylistic degradation visible in later Emporitan coinage as the mint's Greek artistic tradition diluted under indigenous influence.