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CNG 105, Lot: 203. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.71 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; cf. Boston MFA 1531 = Warren 1477 (stater); cf. SNG BN 341 (stater); Triton XX, lot 241. Good VF, lightly toned, slightly off center. Rare as a hekte.