441, Lot: 164. Estimate $300. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CYPRUS, Kition. Azbaal. Circa 449-425/0 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 11.12 g, 10h). 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;
l az-bal (in Phoenician) above; all in dotted square within incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou 6; Tziambazis 17. VF, slightly off center, struck with worn obverse die.