Triton XIX, Lot: 135. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Phaistos. Circa 330-320 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 11.65 g, 9h). Herakles, nude, standing facing, leaning on club held in his right hand, lion skin draped over left forearm extended to hold bow; to left, coiled serpent right; tree of the Hesperides to left / Bull walking left within wreath. Svoronos, Numismatique 13; Le Rider, Crétoises, pl. IV, 2 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 8; Boutin 187; Evans –; Jameson 1334; Traeger 294; Weber 4551. Good VF, toned. Well centered and struck for issue.

Ex Leu 61 (17 May 1995), lot 202.