Triton XV, Lot: 1261. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CYPRUS, Kition. Pumiathon. Circa 362-312 BC. AV Hemistater (12mm, 4.12 g, 6h). Dated RY 8 (355/4 BC). Herakles advancing right, holding club overhead in right hand, bow and arrow in left hand, lion skin draped over extended left arm;
ankh to right / Lion right, biting into the back of a stag recumbent right;
of king Pumiathon in Aramaic above,
8 (date) to right. D-G 12 (dies 6/8 – this coin); Tziambazis 36; BMC 75–8 var. (date); Pozzi 2882 (same dies). Good VF, obverse struck off center.
Ex Auctiones 8 (27 June 1978), lot 337; Münzen und Medaillen XXVIII (19 June 1964), lot 184.