Details
LOT 3113
Illyria, Dyrrhachion AR Drachm. Circa 80/70-60/55 BC. ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΣ and ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ (Meniskos and Dionysios), magistrates.
ΜΕΝΙΣΚΟΣ, cow standing to right, head turned to nudge suckling calf standing to left below; bird above / [ΔΥΡ] ΔΙΟ-ΝΥ-[ΣIOY], double stellate pattern within double linear quadrangle. BMC 62; Meta V/86; Maier 201. Very Fine.(3.15gr, 17mm.).
Provenance
Ex London, UK, collection, 2000s.
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