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Obolos 30

17 December 2023
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Extremely Rare

Starting Price: 300 CHF
Hammer Price:  1300 CHF
Lot 227

ILLYRIA. The Dassaretes. 234-168 BC. (Bronze, 16 mm, 5.48 g, 2 h), Lychnidos (?). BAT Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headress. Rev. ΔΑΣΣΑ-ΡΗΤΩΝ Club; all within oak wreath. P. Ardjanliev: МОНЕТОКОВАЊЕТО НА ДАСАРЕТИТЕ ('The Coinage of the Dassaretai'), in: Patrimonium.mk., Skopje 2018, p. 129, 4 corr. (the author reading BAΣ on the obverse). B. Abazi: I Dassareti e le loro monete (forthcoming), Emission II. Obolos 26 (2022), 102. Extremely rare - just the third known example. Good fine.



P. Ardjanliev first documented the exceedingly rare coinage of the Illyrian tribe of the Dassaretes only in 2018. There are two types known with a total combined population of just six coins.

Online bidding closes: 17 Dec 2023, 15:53:30 CET Current Date & Time: 28 Apr 2024, 18:11:20 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:1300 CHF by MailBidder2339 (10 bids)
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