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Illyria, Apollonia, AR Drachm

Silver alloy; 20.5mm/2.9gm    c. 80-40 BC   Xenokles and Chairenos, magistrates.

Con/ Off struck on both sides, otherwise, Good Fine.

Obv/ ΞENOKΛH[Σ]; cow standing left, suckling calf.

Rev/ AΠOΛ / XAI / PH / NOΣ around double stellate pattern within slightly curved double linear square.

Ref/ Ceka 19

Seller's Note/ Such extensive coinage was issued at Apollonia, in present day Albania, under the Roman Republic. The drachm circulated alongside, and presumably at parity with, Roman denarii.