ILLYRIA. The Dassaretes, 234-168 BC. AE (Bronze, 17 mm, 5.46 g, 2 h), Lychnidos (?). BAT Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion 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, apparently the third known example. Some deposits, otherwise, good fine.

First reported in 2018 by the Macedonian scholar, P. Ardjanliev, the coinage of this Illyrian tribe is of exceeding rarity, with only two types known, and a combined population of six examples (including the present one).