Overstruck on an Aegina Stater

430, Lot: 183. Estimate $200. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Kition. Azbaal. Circa 449-425/0 BC. AR Stater (22.3mm, 11.06 g, 9h). Herakles, wearing lion skin, in fighting stance right, holding club overhead in right hand, bow extended before him in left hand / Lion attacking stag crouching right; Phoenician legend l-azbal above; all in dotted square within incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou 6; Tziambazis 17. VF, struck from a worn obverse die. Overstruck on an Aegina stater, with the “Union Jack” reverse visible on the obverse.