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Extremely Rare Stater of Melekiathon

372, Lot: 165. Estimate $750.
Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Kition. Melekiathon. Circa 392-362/1 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 10.54 g, 7h). Herakles in fighting stance right, holding club and bow, lion skin draped from neck; upright club to right / Lion attacking stag right; all in pellet border in shallow incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou –; Tziambazis –; BMC p. xxxvi, pl. XIX, 7 = Babelon, Perses 704 (same dies). Near VF, toned, struck from worn dies. Extremely rare, none in CoinArchives.