Drachm - Machatas and Nikyllos

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.