370, Lot: 52. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ILLYRIA, Dyrrhachion. Circa 250-200 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.12 g, 1h). Philotas and Chaipillos, magistrates. Cow standing right, looking back at suckling calf standing left below; ΦIΛΩTAΣ above, filleted thyrsos in exergue / Double stellate pattern in double linear square; ΔYP above, X[AI]-PIΛ-ΛOY around; all within linear circle border. Ceka 459; Maier 402; SNG Copenhagen 497. VF, toned, minor roughness, area of flat strike on reverse.
From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from C. Fallani, Rome, July 1963.