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Stater
| Issuer | Dyrrachion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 344 BC - 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head and adorned with a prominent crest; flowing locks of hair emerge beneath the helmet bowl. The goddess's finely modelled facial features are rendered in high relief with a strong jaw and aquiline nose. To the right of the portrait, a club is depicted vertically in the field, serving as a control symbol. A partial Greek legend appears in the lower field. |
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| Mint | Dyrrachion (modern Durrës, Albania) |
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Dyrrachion — modern Durrës in Albania — was a Corinthian colonial foundation that developed its own distinctive stater coinage diverging from the Corinthian prototype sometime in the fourth century. The city sat at the western terminus of what would later become the Via Egnatia, making it a critical transit point for Adriatic trade and giving its silver exceptional circulation reach into the Illyrian interior. Coins from this mint have turned up in hoards stretching from Epirus to the middle Danube.
The Pegasi reference remaining unassigned suggests this piece has not yet been fully attributed to a specific die pairing within the corpus.