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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3250761, member: 57495"]Checking CNG's auction records shows that older sales (before 2012) give the earlier dating you're using, but more recent descriptions go with 340-280 BC, in line with what Gyula Petrányi's website states about coinage at Dyrrhachion only beginning around 340 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know about these Illyrian issues pretty much only what I've read in that website, but I do have two Dyrrhachion staters and can confirm that both show some evidence on the edge that they were cast in a two part mould. Yours does seem to be on the light side for a series where the weight range seems quite consistently between 10.5-10.7g, though. A result of corrosion and/or cleaning, maybe?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's one of mine, which I liked because of the four-animal cow-calf-bird-lizard combo.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]852905[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ILLYRIA, Dyrrhachion</b></p><p>AR Stater. Rare variety. 10.61gm, 20.5mm. ILLYRIA, Dyrrhachion, circa 340-280 BC. Maier -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 17. O: Cow standing right, looking back at suckling calf standing right below; bird above. R: Δ - Y, double stellate pattern divided by line within linear square border; club above and lizard below; all within linear circle border.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3250761, member: 57495"]Checking CNG's auction records shows that older sales (before 2012) give the earlier dating you're using, but more recent descriptions go with 340-280 BC, in line with what Gyula Petrányi's website states about coinage at Dyrrhachion only beginning around 340 BC. I know about these Illyrian issues pretty much only what I've read in that website, but I do have two Dyrrhachion staters and can confirm that both show some evidence on the edge that they were cast in a two part mould. Yours does seem to be on the light side for a series where the weight range seems quite consistently between 10.5-10.7g, though. A result of corrosion and/or cleaning, maybe? Here's one of mine, which I liked because of the four-animal cow-calf-bird-lizard combo. [ATTACH=full]852905[/ATTACH] [B]ILLYRIA, Dyrrhachion[/B] AR Stater. Rare variety. 10.61gm, 20.5mm. ILLYRIA, Dyrrhachion, circa 340-280 BC. Maier -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 17. O: Cow standing right, looking back at suckling calf standing right below; bird above. R: Δ - Y, double stellate pattern divided by line within linear square border; club above and lizard below; all within linear circle border.[/QUOTE]
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