Pronalazak rijetkog isejskog bron？anog novca na gradini Grad u Nakovani (Pelje？ac)

Sa？etak A rare Issaean bronze coin was found in 2019 by Ivan Pami？, an avocational archaeologist, at Grad (Nakovana), an Illyrian hillfort near the western tip of the Pelje？ac Peninsula, in south-central Dalmatia. Only three other examples of this issue, which were struck by the same pair of dies, were previously known in museum collections in Venice, Vienna, and Split. A major stronghold located at the intersection of two of the primary sea lanes in the Dalmatian Archipelago, and within sight of the islands of Vis, Hvar, and Kor？ula, Grad was linked to regional and Mediterranean trade networks. As the first documented find of Issaean currency inside an Illyrian hillfort, the discovery of this coin corroborates the evidence from nearby Nakovana Cave (Spila), which has yielded a large quantity of pottery made at Issa. It points to direct social and economic contacts between the Issaeans and the occupants of the hillfort in the late Hellenistic period