Drachm

Corinthian silver coinage dominated western Greek trade routes for centuries, and by the mid-fourth century the mint was producing drachms at a scale that made the Corinthian weight standard — roughly 8.6 grams for the stater — the benchmark for commerce across Sicily, southern Italy, and the Adriatic colonies. The drachm, at half the stater's weight, filled a specific transactional niche in local markets. Corinth's destruction by Rome in 146 BC brought the civic mint to an abrupt halt, making issues from this late Classical window among the last generations of an unbroken minting tradition stretching back to the seventh century.