Tetradrachm

Damastion was a mining settlement in the silver-rich interior of Illyria, likely located in the region of modern North Macedonia or western Bulgaria — its exact site remains unconfirmed. The city owed its entire monetary existence to the local mines, and ceased issuing coinage once those resources were exhausted or the settlement collapsed, probably before 300 BC. The tetradrachm series is consequently tight and finite.

May's die study identified only a small number of obverse dies across the full Damastion sequence, making this among the more quantifiably rare civic coinages of the northern Aegean periphery.