Drachm

Paros in the late 480s BC was navigating an extraordinarily dangerous political moment. The island had medized — siding with Persia — during Xerxes' invasion, a decision that brought Themistocles to its shores in 480 BC demanding tribute under threat of destruction. The Parians paid. That same humiliation likely disrupted civic functions including coinage, making issues from precisely this window harder to attribute with confidence to a single uninterrupted minting episode.

HGC 6, 656 places this type within a small, closely related group. The series is not prolific.