CRETE, Phaistos. Circa 330-320 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 11.84 g, 11h). Fine.

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Lot: 148. Estimated: $ 500

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Sold For $ 650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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CRETE, Phaistos. Circa 330-320 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 11.84 g, 11h). Herakles, nude, standing facing, head right, holding club set on ground and bow; lion skin to left; to right, coiled serpent above laurel branch / Bull standing left within wreath. Svoronos, Numismatique 17 (same obv. die as pl. XXIII, 13, rev. die as XXIII, 12); Le Rider, Crétoises, pl. III, 22 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 512. Toned, rough horn silver patches and some smoothing. Fine.

Ex Trausnitz Collection (Nomos Obolos 18, 21 February 2021), lot 233; Künker FPL 174 (January 2005), no. 39; Künker 67 (9 October 2001), lot 334.


Closing Date and Time: 7 September 2022 at 10:49:00 ET.

All winning bids are subject to an 20% buyer’s fee.