Triton XVIII, Lot: 54. Estimate $4000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CILICIA, Mallos. Circa 385-375 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 10.60 g, 5h). Herakles kneeling left, strangling the Nemean Lion; club below / Bearded head left, wearing laurel wreath; [MAΛ to left]. Casabonne Type 10; SNG France –; SNG Levante 154; Sunrise 89 = Athena Fund II 777 (this coin). EF, toned, die wear on obverse, reverse a little off center. Very rare with head left on reverse. Artistic reverse die.
From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 299; Athena Fund (Sotheby’s Zurich, 27 October 1993), lot 777.