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Drachm Eunous - Amyntas
| Issuer | Dyrrachion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 229 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A double stellate or floral pattern is displayed within a linear square border, featuring two rows of stylized drooping petals or shoots arranged symmetrically within a latticed frame with pellets at the terminals. The city ethnic ΔYP and the magistrate's name AMYNTA are divided among the four quadrants surrounding the central design. The overall composition is characteristic of the later Dyrrachion drachm series, with the legend distributed around the four sides of the square. |
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Dyrrachion — the Greek name for what Rome would later call Dyrrachium, modern Durazzo on the Albanian coast — was one of the most commercially active ports on the Adriatic, sitting astride the Via Egnatia's western terminus. These magistrate-signed drachms, identified by the names of two officials rather than a monarch, reflect the city's status as a self-governing commercial republic during a period when Illyrian dynastic power was collapsing following Rome's First Illyrian War of 229 BC. The pairing of magistrate names like Eunous and Amyntas served an administrative rather than honorific function.
The series ran for well over a century with remarkable typological consistency, which creates genuine dating difficulties within the sequence.