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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Illyria| > GS11242
Dyrrhachion, Illyria, Greece, Roman Protectorate, c. 229 - 30 B.C.
|Illyria|, |Dyrrhachion,| |Illyria,| |Greece,| |Roman| |Protectorate,| |c.| |229| |-| |30| |B.C.|, Some 68 hoards of Dyrrhachium and Apollonia drachms discovered in Serbia and Northern Bulgaria have been published. This was the territory of the Celtic Scordisci and their allies. Barbarous imitations of Dyrrhachium and Apollonia also appear in the hoards. At the Zboryanovo cult and civic center in Northeastern Bulgaria, cast copies and a casting mold were discovered. These hoards were apparently accumulated beginning 90 B.C. when the Scordisci and their allies began their sweep through northern Greece. By 88 B.C., they reached Dodona in Epirus, where they destroyed the temple of Zeus. By the winter of 85 - 84 B.C., the Celts had penetrated as far as Delphi, where the most sacred of Greek temples were also destroyed.
GS11242. Silver drachm, Ceka 68; BMC Thessaly p. 70, 77; SNG Cop 472; HGC 3.1 40, VF, Dyrrhachium (Durrës, Albania) mint, weight 3.628g, maximum diameter 18.8mm, die axis 270o, c. 229 - 30 B.C.; obverse ANTIΓONO, cow right, head turned back toward suckling calf left, club on right, bow in exergue; reverse ΔYP - ΘEP-ΣI-A, double stellate pattern within double linear square with sides curved inward; SOLD











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