Drachm

Sigeion occupied a strategically critical position at the entrance to the Hellespont, and control of the city was contested repeatedly between Athens and Mytilene across the sixth and fifth centuries. By the time these drachms were struck, the city had passed through Athenian cleruchic settlement and Persian suzerainty alike. Its coinage is rare enough that die linkage studies across surviving specimens remain incomplete, and individual examples continue to surface that complicate existing typological sequences.