Extremely Rare Issos Stater from Levante

366, Lot: 581. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Issos. Circa 390-385 BC. AR Stater (20.5mm, 10.54 g, 1h). Apollo standing left, holding bird in extended right hand, scepter in left; IΣI to right / Herakles, nude, standing facing, head right, leaning on club in left hand, right hand holding bow, lion skin draped over right arm. Cf. Casabonne type 3; cf. Brindley, Early, Group 5; otherwise unpublished in the standard references. VF, toned, struck from worn dies, weakly struck on high points. Extremely rare.

Ex Edoardo Levante Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 342, 14 January 2015), lot 322; Giessener Münzhandlung 60 (5 October 1992), lot 235.