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3 unusual facts about Monunius I of Dardania


Monunius I of Dardania

This is surely the meaning of the minting of a second series of silver coins bearing his name and traditional Macedonian symbols, the head of Heracles on the face and on the reverse, Olympian Zeus, sitting on the throne.

Monunius allied with Thrace, had waged a war against Ptolemy for the Macedonian throne short time before the invasion of the Gauls while the true political reason why the alliance was rejected is not known.

About 280 BC, according to Diodorus and Pausanias, they moved in three directions: toward Macedonia and Illyria, toward Greece, and toward Thrace.


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