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Tetradrachm - Kakio
| Issuer | Damastion (Illyria) |
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| Year | 365 BC - 345 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing left, rendered in fine fourth-century Greek style with elegantly detailed hair bound by a laurel wreath, loose locks falling to the neck. The facial features are delicately modeled with a smooth cheek and refined profile characteristic of Sicilian-influenced die engraving. The field is plain and unlettered, with the bust truncated at the neck filling the flan. |
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| Reverse description | A Delphic tripod cauldron depicted facing, supported by three legs terminating in lion-paw feet and set upon a rectangular base; three prominent ring handles adorn the sides and top of the vessel, with decorative volutes visible at the junction of the legs. The legend ΔΑΜΑΣΤΙΝΩΝ is distributed vertically along the left and right fields, while ΚΑΚΙΟ appears horizontally in the exergue below the base, identifying the issuing city and magistrate. |
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Damastion was a short-lived silver-mining settlement in the northern Macedonian hinterland whose precise location remains disputed among scholars — candidates range across modern Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Its coinage was almost certainly produced to pay for imported labor and equipment rather than for general trade, which explains the concentrated typology and the relatively tight date range before the settlement was absorbed into the expanding Macedonian sphere under Philip II.
May #106 is one of the better-documented die pairs in the series. The mining boom that funded these issues collapsed quickly.