449, Lot: 196. Estimate $150. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CYPRUS, Kition. Azbaal. Circa 449-425/0 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 11.08 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;
[l] a-zbal (in Phoenician) above; all in dotted square within incuse square. Zapiti & Michaelidou 6; Tziambazis 17. Struck from worn dies, off center on reverse. Near VF.