Auction: 17004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 54
Cyprus, Kition (late 5th cent. BC), AR Stater, 11.35g, Herakles advancing right (only his legs visible), wielding club, rev. lion attacking stag right, in dotted square within incuse square (cf. BMC 10ff and 29ff), good metal, but off centre both sides, good fine, together with a Third-Stater, 3.47g, of similar type (cf. BMC 26-28), obverse weak, almost very fine, a Diobol, 1.51g, (cf. BMC 43ff), obverse encrusted, and some deposit on reverse, reverse fine, a Twelfth-Stater, 0.72g, of Baalmalek I (c.479-449 BC), head of Herakles right, rev. lion seated right (cf. BMC 8), obverse very weak, reverse with some deposit, very rare, fine, two later 5th cent BC, Twenty-Fourth-Staters, 0.34g and 0.39g, head of Herakles right, rev. lion attacking stag right (cf. BMC 57ff), fine, and a Forty-Eighth-Stater, 0.23g, similar type (cf. BMC 67), mostly obscured by deposit, fine (7)
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