Triton XVIII, Lot: 576. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. 5th-4th centuries BC. EL Stater (17mm, 16.02 g). Herakles kneeling right, strangling the Nemean Lion; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 161; Greenwell 69; SNG France 308 (this coin); SNG von Aulock –; Boston MFA 1493–4; Dewing –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian 628; Jameson 2197 (same obv. die); Pozzi –; Rosen –. Good VF, toned. High relief.

From the Edoardo Levante Collection. Deaccessioned from the Départment des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.