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Drachm - Meniskos and Kallonos
| Issuer | Dyrrachion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 210 BC - 50 BC |
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| Value | 1 Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Cow standing to right, head turned back to left to observe a suckling calf positioned below her body; above the group, Nike flies to right holding a wreath, rendered in the dynamic Hellenistic style characteristic of Dyrrachian coinage. The magistrate's name MENIΣKOΣ appears as the obverse legend. A thunderbolt is placed in the exergue below the bovine group, serving as a civic symbol of the mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Dyrrachion — the Greek colony on the Illyrian coast known to Romans as Dyrrachium — issued drachms of this type throughout the last two centuries BC, each identified by a pair of magistrate names that functioned as a form of civic accountability. Ceka catalogued hundreds of such name-pairings, and the sheer number of dies produced across this period reflects the city's status as a major Adriatic trading hub. Caesar crossed here in 48 BC pursuing Pompey, by which point the mint had been active in this series for well over a century.