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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3522199, member: 82322&quot;]Dyrrachium was a colony of Corinth.&nbsp; A good web page for these Dyrrachium staters is <a href="http://asklapiadas.ancients.info/03Corinth.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://asklapiadas.ancients.info/03Corinth.html" rel="nofollow">http://asklapiadas.ancients.info/03Corinth.html</a> .&nbsp; The author says &quot;During Timoleon&#039;s campaign against Syracuse in 338 BC, similar staters were minted in many city states with traditional ties to Corinth in the South-West Balkan area for several years ... Most probably, these were the very first local coins produced in Illyria.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people believe Corinth cut the dies and sent them out.&nbsp; That&#039;s probably wrong, probably the die cutters travelled to the mint.&nbsp; Lee Brice said the same thing at his <a href="http://numismatics.org/brice/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/brice/" rel="nofollow">lecture at the ANS</a> on Friday.&nbsp; (Professor Brice&#039;s lecture was on the cronology of period V Corinthian staters and very interesting.&nbsp; Not sure if it was recorded.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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