Drachm

Kyme was among the earliest Greek settlements on the Aeolian coast of Asia Minor and one of the first cities in the region to adopt coinage, placing this issue at the very beginning of that transition. The incuse square punch on the reverse — standard for early electrum and silver issues of western Anatolia — reflects minting technique inherited directly from Lydian practice, whose kingdom had only recently fallen to Cyrus the Great when these pieces were being struck.