Drachm

Priene was formally refounded around 350 BC on a new site further inland, resettled under Macedonian patronage — Alexander himself contributed funds to the temple of Athena Polias there, an act recorded in a surviving inscription now in the British Museum. Coinage followed once the city had established enough civic infrastructure to operate a mint. Regling 27 sits within the early post-refoundation sequence, placing this piece among the first generations of civic silver struck by a city that was, in every practical sense, newly built.