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Stater
| Issuer | Dyrrachion |
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| Year | 344 BC - 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Pegasos, the winged horse of Greek mythology, depicted in a dynamic flying posture facing right, with large outstretched wings rendered in finely detailed feathers. The creature's musculature is boldly modeled in high relief, characteristic of the Corinthian stater tradition. The letter Δ (delta), serving as a mint control mark or magistrate's initial, appears beneath the body of Pegasos in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Δ |
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Dyrrachion — the Greek colonial city on the Illyrian coast known later to Romans as Dyrrachium — struck these staters during a period when the city functioned as a primary commercial gateway between the Adriatic and the Macedonian interior. The timing overlaps with Philip II's aggressive consolidation of the northern Aegean, which pushed trade routes westward and enriched Illyrian coastal ports considerably.
The Pegasi series attribution places this among a well-documented sequence of cow-and-calf issues for which Dyrrachion became the dominant issuing authority in the region, eventually supplanting Apollonia as the more prolific mint by the early Hellenistic period.