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Drachm Meniskos - Kallonos
| Issuer | Dyrrachion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 250 BC - 200 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Double stellate pattern enclosed within a square incuse, composed of rows of pellets and vertical lines forming an elaborate geometric design typical of Dyrrachion drachms. The civic ethnic ΔΥΡ appears in the upper field outside the incuse square, while the magistrate's name ΚΑΛΛΩΝΟΣ (genitive of Kallon) is distributed in the lateral and lower fields. The overall design is deeply struck within the square incuse, a hallmark of Illyrian coinage of this period. |
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Dyrrachion — the Greek colony Rome would later rename Dyrrachium and develop into the western terminus of the Via Egnatia — issued these drachms as a functioning trade currency along the Adriatic coast, where Greek, Illyrian, and Italian commercial networks overlapped. The magistrate names struck on the coinage, here Meniskos and Kallonos, served as a form of civic accountability for silver purity, a practice the city maintained with unusual consistency across several generations of issues.
Ceka's exhaustive study of Dyrrachion coinage remains the authoritative die catalogue, and his numbering places this pairing within a well-documented sequence. The SNG Copenhagen concordance confirms the type is genuinely attested rather than rare.