Kition Overstruck on Amathos

446, Lot: 131. Estimate $300. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Kition. Azbaal. Circa 449-425/0 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 10.96 g, 12h). 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 a-zbal (in Phoenician) above; all in dotted square within incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou 6; Tziambazis 17. VF, overstruck on an Amathos stater of type Amandry, Monnayage 126A. Undertype on both sides is clearly visible .