Triton XVI, Lot: 19. Estimate $150. Sold for $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SKYTHIA, Borysthenes. Circa 500-450/25 BC. Cast Æ (30mm, 1.55 g). Bilobate arrowhead with axial spine / Dolphin. Anokhin, Arrowhead, Type IV. VF, brown patina with patches of red. Very rare, approximately only 11 of this variety known, 5 of which are in museums.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.

Anokhin’s Type IV coins, combining the types of Borysthenes (arrowhead) and Olbia (dolphin), either postdate the incorporation of the former into the latter, or else it indicates that there was a period of direct economic cooperation between the two cities while they were still independent of one other.