Tetradrachm

Akanthos, a Macedonian coastal colony founded by settlers from Andros, derived its wealth almost entirely from the timber trade supplying the Aegean naval powers — timber the Athenians desperately needed for their fleet. This tetradrachm was struck during the decades immediately following the Persian Wars, when northern Aegean poleis operated with considerable monetary independence before Athenian imperial pressure began standardizing coinage across the league.

The Weber and AMNG references place this firmly within the earlier, more robust phase of Akanthian silver production, before the city's absorption into the Chalcidian League altered its minting authority in the late fifth century.