Silver Drachm of Illyria & FREE BOOK

In about 600 BC, the Greek city of Corinth sent colonists up the coast to Illyria (which roughly corresponds to the modern Balkans) to create a city for trade. From about 200 BC, two cities in the area, Apollonia & Dyrrachium started to mint these Greek silver drachms for use in trade. On the obverse they have a fertility symbol of a cow suckling a calf and on the reverse a double geometric pattern which scholars think is a schematic representation of the two stars of the Dioscuri. They grade Very Fine and continued to be struck for some time with minor variations in the design. An affordable ancient Greek silver coin but wait… we are giving away a FREE book with each coin entitled ‘In Celebration of Greek Coinage’ (retail £40). This is a hardback book with 326 pages, in full colour and which features a chapter on the coins of this type. Only 10 of these coins available so get in quick to secure this one-off deal.