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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Illyria| > GS88120
Dyrrhachion, Illyria, Greece, Roman Protectorate, c. 229 - 30 B.C., Unofficial Imitative(?)
|Illyria|, |Dyrrhachion,| |Illyria,| |Greece,| |Roman| |Protectorate,| |c.| |229| |-| |30| |B.C.,| |Unofficial| |Imitative(?)|, This type, Maier 141, is an extremely rare and odd variety. It is so rare that, other than the Maier listing, we have not found another specimen. The style and epigraphy are crude. Maier identifies a "scepter" with the woman's head, and one can be seen on this coin, but it seems more likely to be part of a die crack than engraved. Maier says the type has an owl in the right field which, if it exists, is off flan on this specimen. No other cow and calf drachm variety has an owl on the obverse. Gyula Petrányi excludes this variety from his chronology, apparently indicating he believes it is an unofficial imitative. We agree it is likely an imitative.
GS88120. Silver drachm, Maier 141, Ceka 250 var. (no head or owl), HGC 3.1 40, BMC Thessaly -, SNG Cop -, SNG Munchen -, Delepierre -, SNG Evelpidis -, VF, light toning, off center, bumps and marks, die break on obverse, clashed reverse die, unofficial(?) mint, weight 3.126g, maximum diameter 19.0mm, die axis 180o, c. 60 - 40 B.C.(?); obverse cow right, head turned back toward suckling calf left, woman's head (Isis?) right over KEPΔΩN above, owl in right field (off flan); reverse ΔYP - API-ΣTΩ-NOΣ, double stellate pattern within double linear square; extremely rare; SOLD










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