Triton XVIII, Lot: 123. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CYPRUS, Kition. Baalmelek II. Circa 425-400 BC. AR Stater (25mm, 10.75 g, 3h). Herakles, wearing lion skin, in fighting stance right, holding club overhead in right hand, bow extended before him in left hand; monogram (or
ankh) to right / Lion attacking stag crouching right; L B’LMLK (in Aramaic) above; all in dotted square within incuse square. Tziambazis 19; Babelon,
Perses 678; BMC 35; Sunrise 110 (this coin). EF, toned, overstruck on uncertain type. Exceptional for issue.
From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 185 (8 March 2010), lot 176.