Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 300. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Phaistos. Circa 330-320 BC. AR Stater (12.04 g, 6h). Herakles standing facing, holding club and bow; lion skin draped over branch to left, laurel leaf to lower right, three pellets around / Bull standing left within wreath. Svoronos, Numismatique 17; SNG Copenhagen -; Le Rider, Crétoises, pl. III, 18 (same dies). VF, toned, soft obverse strike.