Watch List notes:

Crete, Phaistos AR Stater. Circa 300-270 BC. Herakles standing in fighting attitude to left, wearing Nemean lion skin, with his right hand preparing to strike the Lernean Hydra with club; ΦΑΙΣΤΙOΝ to right / Bull walking to left, head facing; traces of undertype: Boiotian shield. BMC 13; Le Rider pl. XXIII, 15 (same dies); SNG Lockett 2592 (same dies); Traité 1654. 11.35g, 27mm, 9h.

Good Very Fine; ex-jewellery, cleaning marks visible in fields, well-centred and attractively toned. Overstruck on a stater of Thebes. Rare.

From the David Freedman Collection;
Ex Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions, Auction 37, 19 September 2017, lot 141.