Pedigreed Phaistos Stater

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 194. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $13500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Phaistos. Circa 330-320 BC. AR Stater (11.70 g, 12h). FAISTIOS (retrograde), Herakles standing facing, holding club and bow, preparing to strike serpent to right / Bull standing right within wreath of olive leaves. Svoronos, Numismatique 46; cf. SNG Copenhagen 517 (same obv. die, different rev. type); BMC -; Mionnet II 251 (same dies). VF, toned, slightly irregular flan. Excellent metal. Very rare.

From the James E. Cain Collection. Ex Leu 15 (4 May 1976), lot 267; Naville XII (18 October 1926), lot 1648.