Drachm - Lysanias and Nikoteleos

Apollonia's drachms of this period were struck under a magistrate-pair system, where two named officials — here Lysanias and Nikoteleos — jointly authorized each issue. The city sat on the Via Egnatia and functioned as Rome's primary Adriatic landing point for military and commercial traffic heading east, which kept its coinage in active regional use well into the first century BC.

The specific pairing of Lysanias and Nikoteleos places this within a precisely catalogued sequence; Ceka's meticulous die study of Apollonian issues remains the definitive reference for sequencing these magistrate combinations.