Drachm

Apollonia Pontika — modern Sozopol on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast — was a Milesian colony whose silver coinage circulated widely among the trading ports of the western Pontic littoral. The city's prosperity rested almost entirely on its control of Black Sea fishing routes and the export of salted fish, and these small drachms served the daily transactions of that trade rather than any ceremonial function.

The SNG BM Black Sea references place this issue firmly within a well-documented but numerically limited corpus. Dies were cut locally, and alignment irregularities are common across the type.