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Drachm - Machatas and Nikyllos
| Issuer | Dyrrachion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 120 BC - 70 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΔYΡ NIKYΛΛOY |
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| Mintage | ND (120 BC - 70 BC) |
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Dyrrachion — the Greek colonial city on the Adriatic coast known to Romans as Dyrrachium — issued these magistrate-signed drachms during a period when the city functioned as a key entrepôt between Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. The pairing of two magistrate names, Machatas and Nikyllos, reflects the city's civic minting practice of dual-authority supervision, a system well-documented at Dyrrachion and unusual among Illyrian issues generally. Ceka's corpus catalogues over 400 such name-pair combinations, making individual pairings genuinely scarce as standalone types despite the series' overall abundance.