Drachm - Timen and Damophontus

Apollonia Pontika, the Milesian colony on the Black Sea coast of Thrace, struck these drachms as its principal trade coinage across a remarkably long production window. The magistrate names Timen and Damophontus appear together as a controlling pair — a magistrate and a moneyer, or possibly co-magistrates — placing this issue within the later phase of the city's autonomous silver coinage, before Roman commercial dominance restructured Black Sea monetary networks in the first century BC.

The Ceka reference situates this among the more systematically catalogued Apollonian issues, with SNG Copenhagen 381 providing the key comparative specimen. Die links across the Apollonian series remain incompletely studied.