CNG 88, Lot: 395. Estimate $400. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DYNASTS of LYCIA. Uncertain dynast. Circa 500-470/60 BC. AR Third Stater (9mm, 3.12 g). Protodynastic Group A. Head of boar right / Quadripartite incuse square. Traité I 985 = G.F. Hill, “The Coinage of Lycia, to the time of Alexander the Great,” NC 1895, p.. 44, 2 (same dies). Good VF, toned. Extremely rare.

See Boston MFA Supp. 206 for a stater with a style identical to this fraction.