Drachm

Produced at the height of Athenian imperial power, these drachms circulated throughout the Delian League network and beyond — Athenian silver, backed by Laurion mine output, was the dominant trade currency of the eastern Mediterranean. The Peloponnesian War, which began in 431 BC, would have been in full throat during this coin's production, with Athens simultaneously funding naval operations, plague relief, and the ongoing construction program on the Acropolis.

Kroll's classification places this squarely within the transitional period of die style documented in his Type 10 sequence.