Triton XIX, Lot: 2059. Estimate $10000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Kition. Pumiathon. Circa 362/1-312 BC. AV Hemistater (12.5mm, 4.15 g, 6h). Persian standard. Dated RY 44 (328/7 BC). Herakles advancing right, holding club, bow, and arrow, lion skin draped over arm; ankh to right / Lion right, biting into the back of a stag recumbent right; [L]MLK PMIA[TN] (in Aramaic = “of king Pumiathon”) above, 44 (in Phoenician numerals [date]) to right. Markou, L'or 173 (D33/R51) = D-G 44 = A. Destrooper-Georgiades, “Le monnayage de Pumiathon de Kition (361-312 av. J.-C.) dans le cadre des événements historiques de I’île. Son apport à l’histoire de Chypre” in Proceedings of the XIth International Numismatic Congress (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1993), 27 = SNG Berry 1312 (this coin); Zapiti & Michaelidou 25 var. (date); Tziambazis 36; DCA 819. EF, underlying luster, a little die wear on reverse.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex De la Tour Collection (Part 2, Hess-Divo 317, 4 May 2009), lot 1211; Künker 136 (10 March 2008), lot 688; Hess-Divo 307 (7 June 2007), lot 1295; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 586 (May 1995), lot 19; Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII (31 March 1987), lot 228; Burton V. Berry Collection, 1312.