CNG 99, Lot: 297. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DYNASTS of LYCIA. Trbbenimi. Circa 390-375 BC. AR Stater (25mm, 9.81 g). Wedrei mint. Facing lion scalp; T on forehead / Triskeles; WED (in Lycian) around; all within incuse circle. Falghera 208; SNG Copenhagen Supp. –; SNG von Aulock 4231–3. EF. Well centered and struck. Rare.

Many late Lycian dynastic coins bear legends on both sides that had long been assumed to be the names of two dynasts, who ostensibly issued joint coinages. However, more recent evidence has proved that names such as Wedrei, Zagaba, and Zemuri are actually names of cities, which are the mints of the respective issues they appear on (cf. A.G. Keen, Dynastic Lycia: A Political History of the Lycians & Their Relations with Foreign Powers, c. 545-362 BC [Leiden: Brill, 1998], pp. 109 and 154–5).