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20 November 2016
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A very rare and well struck Hemistater from Kition

Starting Price: 2500 CHF
Hammer Price:  4600 CHF
Lot 584

CYPRUS, Kition. Pumiathon, circa 362-312 BC. Hemistater (Gold, 11mm, 4.15 g 9), year 11 = 352/1. Herakles, bearded and nude save lion’s skin headdress and skin over his left arm, striding right, brandishing his club held with his right hand over his head, and holding his bow with his outstretched left; in lower right field, crux ansata = sign of Tanit. Rev. L MLK PMJTN (=of King Pumiathon in Phoenician Aramaic) Lion attacking stag to right; to right, -ו (year 11). Markou 61-64 (D8/R6). Very rare. Rather rough surfaces, otherwise, good very fine.


From the Chrysos Collection, acquired in Geneva in 1980.

Online bidding closes: 20 Nov 2016, 19:51:30 CET Current Date & Time: 22 Nov 2024, 17:33:10 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:4600 CHF by zeljko (6 bids)
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