Drachm

Paros occupied an unusual position in the Archaic Aegean economy — the island's famous white marble drove enough commercial activity to sustain an independent silver coinage at a period when many comparable Cycladic communities could not. The Parian drachm weight standard aligns closely with the Aeginetan system, reflecting the island's commercial orbit before Attic influence consolidated regional monetary practice.

The SNG Copenhagen 715 reference places this firmly within the earlier part of the series, prior to the Persian sack of 490 BC, when Datis's fleet stopped at Paros during the same campaign that ended at Marathon.