Hemidrachm

Korkyra — modern Corfu — was among the earliest Greek colonies to strike its own silver coinage, doing so independently of its mother city Corinth despite ongoing and often violent tension between them. This hemidrachm falls within the archaic phase of that autonomous output, predating the naval conflict of 433 BC that drew Athens into the dispute and helped trigger the Peloponnesian War.

The HGC 6#44 classification places this among the rarer fractional denominations of early Korkyran silver.