CNG 99, Lot: 101. Estimate $500. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ILLYRIA, Dyrrhachion. Circa 340-280 BC. AR Stater (21.5mm, 10.96 g, 11h). Cow standing left, looking back at suckling calf standing right below / Vertical double stellate pattern divided by double line, in double linear square border; above, lizard right; below, club right; ethnic flanking; all within linear circle border. Maier –; Meadows, CH (forthcoming) 183 (this coin); cf. BMC 17–8. VF, graffito and light cleaning marks on obverse. Extremely rare type with lizard on reverse and short ethnic.