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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Damastion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 350 BC - 340 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Mint | Damastion |
| Mintage | ND (350 BC - 340 BC) |
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Damastion was a silver-mining settlement in the interior of Illyria whose coinage was almost entirely driven by the output of its mines rather than by any civic or royal monetary program in the conventional sense. The city's tetradrachms circulated widely as trade currency across the western Balkans and into northern Greece, valued by weight and fineness rather than political authority. Its precise location remains disputed — most scholarship places it somewhere in modern North Macedonia or southwestern Serbia, but no site has been conclusively identified archaeologically.
The mint was active for a relatively compressed period, and the series catalogued by May remains the definitive organizational framework despite being over a century old.