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Auction 13  7 October 2016
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Lot 231

Estimate: 5000 CHF
Price realized: 14 000 CHF
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GREEK COINS
CYPRUS

Kition. Pumiathon, circa 362-312 BC. Hemistater (Gold, 12mm, 4.13 g 6), year 10 = 353/2. Herakles, bearded and nude save lionskin 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, ; (=10). Unpublished, but cf. BMC 75 ff. and Markou 43 ff. for the type, and Markou D8 (for the same obverse die). Extremely rare. Unique for this date, a clear and powerful piece. Some minor scrapes and marks, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.

From the Chrysos Collection, acquired in Geneva in 1980.
This coin, which bears the clear regnal year 10 on the reverse, was unknown to Markou; though since others of this type are known from years 9 and 11 we could expect that a year 10 must have been issued. This coin can have been acquired no later than the 1970s, since we know that the collection of which this formed part was acquired in 1980,and has been stored in Geneva since that date.


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