430, Lot: 193. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Uncertain. 5th century BC. AR Stater (19.5mm, 10.67 g, 4h). Herakles, wearing lion skin, in fighting stance right, holding club overhead in right hand, bow extended before him in left hand / Bull standing right; all within dotted square in incuse square. Cf. SNG Copenhagen Supp. 626 and BMC p. xlvi, (e) for third staters with similar types, otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Fine, struck from a worn obverse die. Extremely rare, none in CoinArchives.