Drachm

Hierapytna, on the southeastern coast of Crete, was among the last Cretan city-states to maintain independent coinage into the late Hellenistic period — most of its neighbors had already subordinated their minting to Koinon issues or Roman economic pressure. This drachm falls within the city's final decades of autonomous silver production, before Roman administrative consolidation of Crete following Metellus's campaign of 69–67 BC effectively ended local civic coinage across the island.

The "var." qualifications against both Svoronos and the Lockett reference suggest a die combination not fully catalogued — not unusual for Hierapytna, whose small civic output has never received the systematic die study applied to larger Cretan mints like Knossos or Gortyna.