Very Rare Praisos Stater

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 630. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $810. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Praisos. Circa 400-350 BC. AR Stater (10.49 g, 12h). Herakles kneeling right, shooting arrow; lion skin over arm / Dove alighting right in linear square within incuse square. Svoronos, Numismatique 10; Le Rider, Crétoises -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. Fine, toned, some porosity. Very rare.

From the Christopher Morcom Collection. Ex Sotheby (22 April 1970), lot 384.