Silver stater of King Monounios
Srebrni stater kralja Monouniosa
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loads {mb} MBCoins and equipment of the Illyrian age from other collections — of the kind used in the Ulcinj area (7th–2nd c. BC).
Description
Monounios is the first Illyrian king to strike coins in his own name. He struck them at Dyrrhachion, today’s Durrës, on the model of the civic coinage: on the obverse a cow suckles her calf, on the reverse a double square ornament with the legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΟΝΟΥΝΙΟΥ — “of King Monounios”.
In this collection it stands as a forerunner of Ardiaean coinage: it is older than, and north of, the state of Agron and Teuta.
The 3D model was made after photographs of a specimen of this type: obverse and reverse were modelled separately, in full relief, and joined into a two-sided coin at true size (diameter from the catalogue, thickness derived from the weight). The model is a faithful three-dimensional rendering of the type, not a measured survey of the specimen; the relief height is emphasised for legibility. For 3D printing, obverse and reverse were prepared as separate models.
Obverse and reverse
Both faces from the 3D model, in the colour of the coin and with the patina of a coin as found. A visualisation, not a photograph.
Replicas — visualisation
Computer renderings of replicas made from the 3D model, not photographs. Sizes and materials are proposals for 3D printing.
Literature and sources
- Britanski muzej, primjerak 1866,1201.1408 — https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1866-1201-1408
- SNG Tübingen 1508, Univerzitet u Tibingenu — https://www.ikmk.uni-tuebingen.de/object?id=ID3806
- Sh. Gjongecaj, „Le trésor de Kreshpan“, Revue numismatique 6/153 (1998), str. 81 — https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1998_num_6_153_2192
- J. Wilkes, The Illyrians, Oxford 1992.
