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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4799627, member: 99456&quot;]This one qualifies - I still have some work to do to understand this coin - just liked the cow, calf, owl, Helios obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1165621[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Illyria, <strike>Apollonia</strike>Dyrrhachion</b> AR Drachm, <strike>circa 200-45 BC</strike> 92-60 BC, Exephron and Zopuro, magistrates.</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Cow standing right, looking back at suckling calf standing left below; head of Helios right and EXEΦΠΩN above, owl before</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Double stellate pattern within slightly curved double linear square; ΔYP ZΩΠYPOY around</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Edit: </b>using these two articles from Gyula Petranyi <a href="https://www.academia.edu/10000271/Which_name_represents_the_eponymous_magistrate_on_the_drachms_of_Apollonia_and_Dyrrhachium_Numizmatikai_Kozlony_2007_" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/10000271/Which_name_represents_the_eponymous_magistrate_on_the_drachms_of_Apollonia_and_Dyrrhachium_Numizmatikai_Kozlony_2007_" rel="nofollow">(2007)</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.academia.edu/10000240/Cow_calf_type_Greek_Illyrian_drachms_from_Apollonia_and_Dyrrhachium_Chronological_questions_Abgadiyat_5_2010" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/10000240/Cow_calf_type_Greek_Illyrian_drachms_from_Apollonia_and_Dyrrhachium_Chronological_questions_Abgadiyat_5_2010" rel="nofollow">(2010)</a>, the date I had seems to be wrong.&nbsp; For more information, see the <a href="http://asklapiadas.ancients.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://asklapiadas.ancients.info/" rel="nofollow">website of Gyula Petranyi</a></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Dyrrhachium</u> (cow always to right)</p><blockquote><p>Class 4. Various obverse names with the same reverse,multiple symbols on the obverse</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1165736[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>all of this further illustrating that I <i>didn&#039;t know 100% what I was buying.&nbsp; It is only a fortunate accident that it now fits nicely the &quot;Sulla&quot; time period of my primary collection.&nbsp; </i></p><blockquote><p><font size="3"><i>&quot;In the spring of 87 BC Sulla landed at Dyrrachium, in Illyria. Asia was occupied by the forces of Mithridates under the command of Archelaus. Sulla’s first target was Athens, ruled by a Mithridatic puppet; the tyrant Aristion.&quot;</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>-Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla" rel="nofollow">Sulla</a></i></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><b>Next: </b>another coin with any of Helios, cow, calf or owl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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