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Drachm - Eunous and Damenos
| Issuer | Dyrrachion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 229 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A complex double stellate pattern occupies the central field, composed of radiating lines and pellets arranged within a double linear square border, with dot-in-corner ornaments at each angle of the inner square. The city ethnic ΔYΡ and the magistrate's name ΔAMHNOΣ are disposed around the central geometric device in Greek letters, reading along the outer margins. The overall design is characteristic of the later Dyrrachian drachm series, where the distinctive stellate motif served as a heraldic emblem of the mint. The die-engraving is precise, with the linear frame clearly delineated against the plain silver field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔYΡ ΔAMHNOΣ |
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Dyrrachion, the Greek colony on the Adriatic coast known to Romans as Dyrrachium, issued these magistrate-named drachms across a remarkably long production window as the city navigated shifting allegiances — first under Macedonian influence, then increasingly within Rome's orbit after 229 BC when Roman protectorate status effectively ended Illyrian Queen Teuta's control over the port. The coin's authority rests on two named magistrates, Eunous and Damenos, whose pairing places this issue within a specific administrative moment that Ceka's die study attempts to sequence chronologically.
Dyrrachion's coinage was widely circulated as a transshipment currency along Adriatic trade routes, and examples frequently appear in hoards from the Balkans interior far removed from the city itself.