Herakliskos Drakonopnigon - ‘Herakles the Snake-Strangler’

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 240. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 405-395 BC. AR Stater (11.26 g). Boeotian shield / Herakles seated facing, head right, strangling two serpents; all within concave incuse. BCD Boiotia 459. VF, toned.

From the BCD Collection. Ex J. Hirsch FPL XVII (February 1907), no. 1756; J. Hirsch XIII (15 May 1905), lot 1811.