Drachm - Archimedes and Nikoteleos

Dyrrachion — the Greek colony on the eastern Adriatic coast known to Romans as Dyrrachium — issued these drachms in enormous quantities during the second and first centuries BC, functioning as the dominant trade currency along Illyrian coastal routes. Each piece names a magistrate and a secondary official, here Archimedes and Nikoteleos, a pairing that helps scholars establish approximate sequences within the long series, though absolute dating within the 229–100 BC window remains contested. The type was so widely accepted that it circulated well beyond Illyria into Macedonia and Epirus, frequently appearing in hoards alongside Apollonia issues of near-identical type.