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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4800245, member: 99456&quot;]I clearly got the city wrong on my last post - <b>Apollonia</b> would have had an AΠOΛ on reverse, not ΔYP for <b>Dyrrhachion</b>.&nbsp; So here&#039;s a drachm from Apollonia, although only evident from seeing other coins of this type:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1165711[/ATTACH]<b>Illyria, Apollonia</b>, <strike>circa 250-200</strike> 53-48 BC, ΤΙΜΗN (Timen) and ΔΑΜΟΦΩΝTOΣ (Damophontos), magistrates, AR drachm</p><p><b>Obv:</b> TIMHN, cow standing left with suckling calf, monogram below</p><p><b>Rev:</b> [AΠOΛ] ΔAMOΦΩNTOΣ, double stellate pattern</p><p><b>Ref:</b> BMC <a href="http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=206990" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinproject.com/coin_detail.php?coin=206990" rel="nofollow">14</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Edit: </b>Two useful articles on dating and various styles:</p><p>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> also 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>Which raises an interesting question for this coin: is my dating also completely wrong above?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1165725[/ATTACH]</p><p><u>Apollonia</u></p><blockquote>Class L: Cow to left</p><blockquote>Lc. Sides of the stellate pattern are inward bending</p><blockquote><p>Lc-2/b. Rays are similar to petals</p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1165723[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Next: </b>another coin with a magistrates name on either obverse or reverse[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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