Ancient Epirote Currency was Greek

 All the ancient Epirote currency was in Greek language and connects directly to the Greek Mythology characters.

The Epirote coins beautifully depict Zeus, who is in fact the planet Jupiter, the God of Sky and Thunder. The Greeks portrayed the sky phenomena in an artistic way. Epirote Coins show the eagle of Zeus and the thunderbolt symbol κεραυνός, where our region Acroceraunia gets its name from



  Our Epirote coins show the word APEIROTAN on them (Epirote) and below they show that Pyrrhus was the King (βασιλεύς).


Coins of Apollonia, Byllis,Antigonea (Kruja of today), and Chaonia were all in Greek.


Another Greek coin of Byllis that Albanians call a Roman city.


Dyrrachion was also a Greek city with Greek coins


Dyrrhachium four punch coins with a solar symbol.

A beautiful coin of Athena (Latin Minerva) found at Dyrrachium


More coins of Zeus were found at Epirus.


Albanians do not seem to understand any of those symbols on our coins and call Zeus God- but he was personifying a planet. They do not know any of the cosmological events pertaining to Zeus and why he was depicted on our coins. That shows that Albanians were never part of our history and that they do not understand mythology and symbolism.


Albanians claim that Epirotes are Albanian. During pagan times the Epirotes followed the Greek cults of Zeus and we didn’t even know who Albanians were until 1913. A Greek coin of Butrintos


More Greek coins at Butrintos


Epirotes are very ancient. The coin at the British Museum depicts Hercules, as we all know that Epirotes were related to the family of Hercules.


Epirotes were Greek and they were following the cult of Jupiter in the pagan times

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