Drachm

Emporion — modern Empúries on the Catalan coast — was a Greek colony founded by Phocaeans from Massalia, and its coinage served as the primary hard currency circulating among indigenous Iberian communities in the northeastern peninsula during this period. These drachms were so widely trusted and imitated that local Iberian tribes eventually struck their own copies, often debased, which numismatists now classify separately as "dracmas ibéricas." The prototype itself, catalogued by Heiss as his first entry in Iberian coinage, reflects just how foundational Emporion's monetary output was to the entire region's commercial framework.