Ex Sunrise Collection

CNG 105, Lot: 394. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Kition. Baalmelek II. Circa 425/0-400 BC. AR Stater (25mm, 10.75 g, 3h). Herakles, wearing lion skin, in fighting stance right, holding club overhead in right hand, bow extended before him in left hand; monogram (or ankh) to right / Lion attacking stag crouching right; L B’LMLK (in Aramaic) above; all in dotted square within incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou 12; Tziambazis 19; Sunrise 110 (this coin). EF, toned, overstruck on uncertain type. Exceptional for issue.

Ex Roma IX (22 March 2015), lot 408; Gorny & Mosch 185 (8 March 2010), lot 176; Sunrise Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 123; Gorny & Mosch 185 (8 March 2010), lot 176.