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Ancient Greece, Illyria, Dyrrhachium, AR Drachm

229-30 BC

Ancient Greece, Illyria, Dyrrhachium, AR Drachm
Ancient Greece, Illyria, Dyrrhachium, AR Drachm
Ancient Greece, Illyria, Dyrrhachium, AR Drachm
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Article code:  22-3862
Dyrrhachium, Illyria, Greece, Roman Protectorate, AR Drachm, struck 229-30 BC.

Obverse: Cow standing to right, looking back and suckling calf standing to left beneath her.
Legend: MENIΣKOΣ (Meniskos)
Reverse: Square containing double stellate pattern.

Diameter: ± 17,2 mm maximum
Weight: ± 3,08 g
Condition: very fine
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The silver drachm is the best known coin of Dyrrhachium, it features a recurrent obverse of a cow with a sucking calf, a fertility symbol of Euboean origin. These drachms circulated alongside with the Roman Republican denarii.

Dyrrhachium (modern day Durrës) is situated on the Albanian Adriatic sea coast. It was founded by ancient Greek colonists around the 7th century BC. In antiquity the city was also known as Epidamnos.
After the Illyrian Wars with the Roman Republic in 229 BC ended in a decisive defeat for the Illyrians, the city passed to Roman rule. Dyrrachium prospered under Roman rule and was developed as a major military and naval base.
In 48 BC the Battle of Dyrrhachium between Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompey took place here.

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Features and Specifications

Period Ancient, Ancient Greece
Category Coins
Material Silver
Country Ancient Greece
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