Drachm Xenon and Agathionos

Dyrrachion — the Greek colonial city on the Illyrian coast known to Romans as Dyrrachium — issued drachms under paired magistrate names throughout the Hellenistic period, a practice that distinguished its coinage from most other Greek mints. The names Xenon and Agathionos appear together on this issue, placing it within a sequence catalogued by Ceka and cross-referenced by Maier, though the precise tenure of these magistrates within the roughly fifty-year window remains unresolved. The city's position controlling the western terminus of the later Via Egnatia made its silver indispensable to Adriatic trade long before Rome took formal interest in the region.