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Ancient Coinage of Illyria, Dyrrhachium

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BMC 3Illyria, Dyrrhachium. AR Stater. Circa 450-350 BC. Cow standing left suckling calf, small D on cow's rump / D Y P, double stellate pattern; club beneath. SNG Delepierre 1166. TextImage
BMC 8Dyrrhachium, Illyria, AR Stater. ca 420-380. Cow with suckling calf standing left, head turned towards kneeling calf / D-Y-P, double floral pattern within linear square, below, club; all within circular linear border. TextObvRev
BMC 10Illyria, Dyrrhachion AR Stater. ca 400-330 BC. Pegasos flying right, D below / helmeted head of Athena right; club & D behind, dolphin above helmet to right. Pegasi II 31. TextImage
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Illyria, Epidamnos-Dyrrachium AR Drachm. ca 250 BC. Head of Herakles in lionskin / DYP, retrograde, Pegasus flying right. SNG Cop 433, BMC 27-31. TextImage
BMC 185Illyria, Dyrrachium. c100 BC. Æ 10mm (3.40 gm). Magistrate Gaios. Female head (probably Aphrodite) right, wearing tiara / GAIOU-DUR, eagle standing left, two grape bunches in exergue. TextImage
Ceka 18Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. ALKAIOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles / DYP APIISTOMENEOS, square containing double stellate pattern. TextImage
Ceka 27Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. ALEXANDROS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, eagle standing right above / DYP MENEKKA, square containing double stellate pattern. TextImage
Ceka 30Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. ALKAIOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, eagle standing right above, plow below / DUR ARISTOMENEWS, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 40. TextImage
Ceka 46Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. Alkaios (Moneyer), Sostrionos (Magistrate). After 229 BC. ALKAIOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, hound running right below / DUR SWSTRIWNOS, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 115. TextImage
Ceka 56Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. Alkon (Moneyer), Eortaius (Magistrate). ALKWN, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, club below / DUR EOPTAIOY, square containing double stellate pattern. TextObvRev
Ceka 199Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. ZWILOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, head of Sol above, Owl to right / DUR ZWPYPOY, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 73. TextImage
Ceka 220vIllyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. QEODOTOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, bunch of grapes below / DUR ARIMNASTOY, square containing double stellate pattern. TextImage
Ceka 228Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. QEODOTOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles / DUR FALAKRIONOS, square containing double stellate pattern. TextImage
Ceka 275Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. KTHTOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, rudder below (cornucopiae to right) / DYP AMYNTA, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 34. TextImage
Ceka 279Dyrrachium, Illyria, AR Drachm. c 150 BC. KTHTOS, cow standing right, head turned, suckling calf, eagle standing right on thunderbolt above / DYP MENEKKA, double square containing stellate pattern. TextImage
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Ceka 282Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. KTHTOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, head of Isis right above, grain ear entwined with bunch of grapes to right / DUR FANISKOY, square containing double stellate pattern. SNG Cop 491, BMC 119, 120. TextImage
Ceka 300Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. LUSHN, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, radiate head of Helios right above, owl to right / DUR ZWPYPOY, square containing double stellate pattern. TextImage
Ceka 318Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. MENISKOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, rudder below / APXIPPOY, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 41. TextImage
Ceka 320,RavenIllyricum, Dyrrhachi. c. 200 - 30 BC. AR Drachm. MENISKOS, cow suckling calf, raven above / DUR DIO NU SIOU, double stellate pattern. SNG Cop 467, Maier 201. TextImage
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Ceka 320Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. MENISKOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles / DUR DIONUSIOY, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 62, 63, 64. TextImage
Ceka 322Illyria, Dyrrachium AR Drachm. c.70-60 BC. MENISKOS, cow suckling calf, Nike flying above with wreath, thunderbolt in ex / DUR KAL LW NOS around double stellate pattern. SNG Tubingen 1424, SNG Cop 476, BMC 81. TextImage
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Ceka 325Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. MENISKOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles / DUR LUKISKOY, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 94, 95. TextImage
Ceka 331Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. MENISKOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, hound running right below, torch right / DUR FILWTA, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 135. TextObvRev
Ceka 360Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. XENWN, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, eagle standing right above / DUR PURBA, square containing double stellate pattern, club to left. BMC 112, 113. TextImage
Ceka 360vIllyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. XENWN, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles / DUR PURBA, square containing double stellate pattern, club to left. cf BMC 112, 113. TextObvRev
Ceka 361Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. 229-100 BC. XENWN, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, caps of the Dioscuri above, ear of corn to left, torch (or bunch of grapes?) to right / DUR FILLIA, square containing double stellate pattern. SNG Cop 493, BMC 126. TextObvRev
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Ceka 362Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. XENWN, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, eagle above, hound running right below / FILODAMOY, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 131, 132. TextImage
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Ceka 363Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. 200-30 BC. XENWN, cow & calf, eagle on scepter above, quiver right / DUR XARO PIN OU around stellate pattern. SNG Cop 498. TextImage
Ceka 376Dyrrhachium, Illyria, AR drachm. After 229 BC. SILANOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf, which she suckles / DUR ARISTONOS, double stellate pattern. TextImage
Ceka 387Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. STRATONIKOS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, bunch of grapes below / DUR ARISTOMENEOS, square containing double stellate pattern. TextImage
Ceka 438Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. FILWN, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, head of Helios above / DUR MENISKOU, square containing double stellate pattern. TextImage
Ceka 453Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. FILWTAS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles / DUR KLEANOROS, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 84. TextImage
Ceka 455Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. FILWTAS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles / DYP MENEKKA, square containing double stellate pattern. TextImage
Ceka 464Illyria, Dyrrhachium AR Drachm. After 229 BC. FILOTAS, cow standing right, looking back at calf which is suckles, bunch of grapes below, club to left, (corn ear to right) / DUR ASKLAPOY, square containing double stellate pattern. BMC 43. TextImage
McClean_5072Illyria, Dyrrhachium, AE17. 3rd-2nd century BC. Laureate head of Zeus right / Tripod within wreath. TextImage
PegasiII_13vIllyria, Dyrrhachion. After 350 BC. AR Stater. Pegasos flying right; Ð below / Helmeted head of Athena left; S, dolphin & club behind. Countermark, griffin head. TextImage
SNGCop 421Illyria, Dyrrhachion AR Stater. ca 450-350 BC. Cow standing right, suckling calf / Ð Y P, double stellate pattern; club beneath. SNG Delepierre 1164. TextImage
SNGCop 424vIllyria, Dyrrhachion. Circa 450-350 BC. AR Stater. Cow standing left, suckling calf / [?-U]-R, double stellate pattern; club beneath. TextImage
SNGCop 425Illyria, Dyrrhachion. Circa 450-350 BC. AR Stater. Cow standing right, suckling calf, monogram above / D U R, double stellate pattern; club beneath. TextImage
Sear #1896Illyria, Epidamnos-Dyrrachium AR Drachm. ca 250 BC. Head of Herakles in lionskin / DYP, retrograde, Pegasus flying right. SNG Cop 433, BMC 27-31.
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Sear #1900Epidamnos-Dyrrhachium, Illyria, AR drachm, after 229 BC. MENISKOS, cow standing right, suckling calf / DYR AMYNTA, double stellate pattern.
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Sear #1903Illyria, Epidamnos-Dyrrhachium. AE18. 3rd-2nd c. BC, Head of Zeus of Dodona right, wreathed with oak / AGAQO KLEOC either side of tripod-lebes, DUR below, all within oak wreath, TextImage
See also: Complete List of Dyrrhachium Cow/Calf Drachm Types, by Ceka number, compiled By Ferdinand Schinkel
Coinage of Apollonia and Dyrrhachium page By Gyula Petranyi
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Entry for Illyria, Dyrrhachium on the Digital Historia Numorum
Perseus Project database, coins of Dyrrhachium
Search for Dyrrhachium in the British SNG Volumes' Database at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Search for Dyrrhachium at AncientImports.com
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