430, Lot: 185. Estimate $300. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Kition. Baalmelek II. Circa 425/0-400 BC. AR Stater (21.3mm, 10.86 g, 3h). 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 b-almlk above; all in dotted square within incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou 12; Tziambazis 19. VF, struck from a worn obverse die, natural flan hole at 1 o’clock on the obverse.