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Drachm - Alkaios and Timea
| Issuer | Dyrrachion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 37 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Dyrrachion — the Greek colony Rome knew as Dyrrachium — sat at the western terminus of the Via Egnatia, making it one of the busiest monetary crossroads in the Adriatic world. The magistrate names on this issue, Alkaios and Timea, represent the paired naming convention Dyrrachion used across its long drachm series: one name likely a civic magistrate, the other possibly a moneyer or co-authority, though their precise administrative relationship remains unresolved in scholarship.
The city's coinage circulated heavily into the Illyrian interior and was regularly imitated. Caesar himself crossed at Dyrrachium in 48 BC, and the city's mint continued functioning under shifting political masters until absorption into the Roman provincial system ended autonomous civic coinage entirely.