Drachm circa 500-495, AR 18 mm, 6.06 g. Goat kneeling r. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Sheedy 73a (this coin). HGC 6, 653. In exceptional state of preservation. Struck in high relief on a very large flan and with a superb old cabinet tone. Good extremely fine Ex Leu 13, 1975, 175; Nomos 2, 2010, 104; Hess-Divo 328, 2015, 53; CNG 103, 2016, 187; Triton XIX, 2016, 137 and Künker 304, 2018, 419 sales. The Athenians asserted that Ionian Greeks from Athens colonized the island of Paros; however, according to other ancient authors, the island was originally founded by Cretans and Arcadians under the leadership of the hero Paros of Parrhasia. Although there were several important communities on the island, the city of Paros dominated them by the seventh century BC. Despite its flourishing, Paros came under the control of neighbouring Naxos by the end of the sixth century BC, and remained so until 490 BC, when the Persians permanently overthrew Naxos' dominance. After Persian rule, the clashes with Athens and a brief period of Spartan influence, Paros became an ally of Athens at the beginning of the fourth century BC, joining the Second Athenian League. In an effort to conquer the Aegean, in 314 BC Antigonos Monophthalmos united Paros and the other Cyclades into the First Nesiotic League, which was ruled by the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt from 287 BC until 246 BC. At the start of his Carian expedition, Philip V of Macedon conquered and garrisoned Paros. The pirate fleets used by Mithradates VI of Pontos throughout his three wars against Rome probably caused the city and the other Cycladic islands to suffer.The extensive series of silver didrachms and drachms produced between the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC provides evidence of Paros' affluence during the Archaic and early Classical periods. Usually featuring a goat on the obverse and an incuse square on the reverse, these were struck using the Aeginetic standard. Around 470 BC, this coinage came to an end, and the mint closed as well. The Parians appear to have struck no coinage in the fifth century BC, in part because of Athenian demands that tribute payments be made in Athenian coinage. Parian silver coinage resumed in the fourth century BC, perhaps in the context of the Social War or the birth of the League of Corinth. Please find here the video of the coin