455, Lot: 172. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CYPRUS, Kition. Azbaal. Circa 449-425/0 BC. AR Stater (18mm, 10.95 g, 6h). Herakles, wearing lion skin, in fighting stance right, holding club overhead in right hand, bow extended before him in left hand / Lion attacking stag crouching right;
l a-zba[l] (in Phoenician) above; all in dotted square within incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou 6; Tziambazis 17. Irregular flan, struck with worn obverse die, test cut on reverse. Near VF.