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Drachm - Kerdon and Nikyllos
| Issuer | Dyrrachion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 120 BC - 70 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔYΡ NIKYΛΛOY |
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Dyrrachion, the Greek colony on the eastern Adriatic coast, struck drachms under rotating pairs of magistrates whose names appear on the coinage — a practice that makes individual die pairings like this Kerdon and Nikyllos issue precisely datable within the series relative to other known magistrate sequences. The city's coins circulated far beyond Illyria itself, recovered in hoards across the Balkans and into Macedonia, largely because Dyrrachion functioned as the western terminus of the Via Egnatia after its construction around 146 BC.
Maier 325 places this pairing in the middle-to-late phase of the series.