Damastion

Damastion was issuing silver in the form of coins bearing the head of Apollo on the obverse and a sacrificial tripod with the inscription "ΔΑΜΑΣΤΙΝΩΝ" on the reverse.

These coins have been found in many places in the Balkans, mainly in southern Serbia, north-eastern Kosovo, eastern North Macedonia, west Bulgaria, Shkodër in Albania and as far as Romania, Trieste and Corfu.

One researcher, Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer, endeavoured to find modern derivatives of the name and assumed that Damesi, a village in southern Albania, might have been Damastion.

[17][18][19][20] The circulation of the coins of Damastion included Dardania (today's Kosovo and its surrounding areas) up to the west, to the southern Adriatic coast.

[22][23] At the time of Alexander the Great's Balkan campaign, in particular in Illyria, the autonomous minting of Damastion ceased, meanwhile Macedonian coins of Alexander and his father Philip II appear in the region, suggesting that the kings of Macedon have set up a unified monetary system by capturing all the metal resources available in the region.

Silver coin of Damastion, 4th century BC. Obv.: Apollo head, laureate. Rev.: sacrificial tripod , letters ΔΑΜΑΣΤΙΝΩΝ ( of the Damastians ) - ΚΗΦΙ.