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Illyria, Dyrrhachium (Durrës/Durazzo, Albania)
SGCV 1899-1901 var., Ceka 278, Meta IV/74

AR Drachm, 3.01 gr., 19.82 mm. max., 0◦; struck 61 B.C., Petrányi Class D4 (struck 92-60 BC).

Obv: Cow standing right, looking back at calf, which it suckles, ΚΤΗΤΟΣ (=Ktitos, the moneyer) and wreath above, tripod to right, [A in exergue], all within beaded border.

Rev: ΔYP (= DYR, for Dyrrhachium) above square with concave sides containing two separation lines and vertically-oriented petal-shaped rays, ΚΛΕΙ-ΤΟΡΙ-ΟΥ (=  of Kleitorios, the magistrate), around square in three parts clockwise, all within a linear border.

Apollonia and Dyrrhachium were founded by Corcyra, and produced parallel series of similar coins during the first four centuries B.C.  The drachma series was minted from the end of the 3rd century B.C. until the mid-1st century under Roman protectorate, and shows devices adopted from Corcyra:  the cow with suckling calf on the obverse and a symmetrical geometrical pattern on the reverse.

Illyria, Dyrrhachium (Durrës/Durazzo, Albania)

SGCV 1899-1901 var., Ceka 278, Meta IV/74

AR Drachm, 3.01 gr., 19.82 mm. max., 0◦; struck 61 B.C., Petrányi Class D4 (struck 92-60 BC).

Obv: Cow standing right, looking back at calf, which it suckles, ΚΤΗΤΟΣ (=Ktitos, the moneyer) and wreath above, tripod to right, [A in exergue], all within beaded border.

Rev: ΔYP (= DYR, for Dyrrhachium) above square with concave sides containing two separation lines and vertically-oriented petal-shaped rays, ΚΛΕΙ-ΤΟΡΙ-ΟΥ (= of Kleitorios, the magistrate), around square in three parts clockwise, all within a linear border.

Apollonia and Dyrrhachium were founded by Corcyra, and produced parallel series of similar coins during the first four centuries B.C. The drachma series was minted from the end of the 3rd century B.C. until the mid-1st century under Roman protectorate, and shows devices adopted from Corcyra: the cow with suckling calf on the obverse and a symmetrical geometrical pattern on the reverse.

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