Triton XX, Lot: 241. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.68 g). Nude Herakles kneeling left in foreground, and his brother, Iphikles, also nude, kneeling right in background, fighting Hera’s serpents on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 208; Greenwell 63; cf. Boston MFA 1531 = Warren 1477 (stater); cf. SNG BN 341 (stater); BMC –; Gillet –; cf. Gulbenkian 629 (stater); cf. Jameson 2208 = Weber 4998 (stater). Near EF, lightly toned. Well centered on a broad flan. Rare as a hekte.