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A silver coin recently found by detectorists in the environs of Trilj can be attributed to Issa, a Greek city on the island of Vis, on cogent epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic grounds. It is the first example of an Issaean silver coin on record and may be dated between 200 and 175 BC. The coin's weight (4.84 g) suggests that it could have circulated as a reduced Corcyraean didrachm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Illyrian king Mytilos is mentioned in Pompeius Trogus' Philippic History, while his name, accompanied by a royal title, also appears on coins. The coins in question are the earliest Dyrrhachian bronzes with the head of Heracles on the obverse and the hero's attributes and the inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΥΤΙΛΟΥ on the reverse. A total of five coins bearing the king's name are known, including the specimen in the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. However, the results of the recent conservation-restoration and analytical research of the Zagreb coin have shown that it is actually a replica and not an original coin, as hitherto believed. A hypothesis postulating the Archaic date and attributing the KOPKYPAIΩN-issues to the Knidian colony on Korčula is analysed and dismissed in the appendix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]