Drachm - Philotas and Zopyros

Dyrrachion — the Greek colony known later to Romans as Dyrrachium — sat on one of the most strategically trafficked stretches of the Adriatic coast, serving as the western terminus of the Via Egnatia. Its drachms circulated far inland through Illyria and Macedonia, and the practice of naming both a magistrate and a secondary official on each issue creates the dense prosopographical record that makes this series unusually traceable. Philotas and Zopyros represent one of dozens of such pairings documented across the late second and early first century.