CNG 90, Lot: 632. Estimate $750. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DYNASTS of LYCIA. Uncertain dynast. Circa 490/80-470/60 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 9.58 g). Forepart of boar right / Triskeles in linear square within incuse square. Falghera –; SNG von Aulock 4057 (but with later obv. style); SNG Copenhagen –. VF, toned, die break and old scuffs under tone on obverse.

This coin defies placement within the early groups defined by Vismara (Falghera), as the obverse style is a match for the Predynastic and Protodynastic A groups, while the reverse (anepigraphic triskeles) is canonical for Protodynastic B. Nevertheless, production of all of these groups overlap in the period 490/80-470/60 BC, to which this coin must belong.