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100, Lot: 54. Estimate $200.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Sardeis. Circa 2nd-1st centuries BC. Æ 18mm (5.21 gm). Laureate bust of a young Herakles right, lion's skin tied around neck / Nude Apollo standing left, holding bird and laurel branch; monogram before, magistrate Heraios; all within laurel wreath. SNG Copenhagen 493; BMC Lydia pg. 240, 36; cf. SNG von Aulock 3132ff (no magistrate's name); Laffaille 510 var. (magistrate's name). Good VF, dark olive green patina.

Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 482.