Dyrrachion — the Greek colonial city on the Adriatic coast modern Albania now calls Durrës — issued drachms under paired magistrate names for roughly a century and a half, a system that makes individual issues traceable to specific administrative tenures. The pairing of Aphrodisios and Kallenos places this piece within that long sequence, though the precise dating of individual magistrate pairs within the 229–100 BC window remains contested among specialists.
229 BC marks the year Rome first intervened militarily in Illyria, placing Dyrrachion under Roman protectorate status. The city retained its coinage rights and continued issuing under the old format throughout.
Dyrrachion — the Greek colonial city on the Adriatic coast modern Albania now calls Durrës — issued drachms under paired magistrate names for roughly a century and a half, a system that makes individual issues traceable to specific administrative tenures. The pairing of Aphrodisios and Kallenos places this piece within that long sequence, though the precise dating of individual magistrate pairs within the 229–100 BC window remains contested among specialists.
229 BC marks the year Rome first intervened militarily in Illyria, placing Dyrrachion under Roman protectorate status. The city retained its coinage rights and continued issuing under the old format throughout.