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Kition. Azbaal, circa 449-425 BC. Stater (Silver, 26 mm, 10.94 g, 6 h), c. 440-430. Herakles advancing to right, wearing lion's skin over his shoulders, brandishing club with his raised right hand and holding his bow in his left. Rev. L'Z'B'L (in Aramaic) Lion pouncing to right, on a stag collapsing to right; all in a dotted square frame within a shallow incuse square. BMC 15. Tziambazis 17. Zapiti & Michaelidou 5-6. An interesting coin, overstruck on a near contemporary coin of Amathus, as Amandry 126A, dated to 450-430 BC. Struck from a heavily worn obverse die and with considerable traces of overstriking, otherwise, good fine/extremely fine.
From a German collection, formed prior to 2005.Coins of Amathus have been recognized as the host-flans for three other staters of Azbaal: a) Roma e-43, 2018, 201; b) CNG e-446, 2019, 131; c) Naumann 73, 2019, 240. The relative fine condition of the undertypes allows us to assume that the coins of Amathus did not circulate for long before being used as flans for Azbaal's coins. It would be interesting to speculate that Azbaal of Kition deliberately chose to remove the Amathuntine issues from circulation for political reasons.
Kition. Azbaal, circa 449-425 BC. Stater (Silver, 26 mm, 10.94 g, 6 h), c. 440-430. Herakles advancing to right, wearing lion's skin over his shoulders, brandishing club with his raised right hand and holding his bow in his left. Rev. L'Z'B'L (in Aramaic) Lion pouncing to right, on a stag collapsing to right; all in a dotted square frame within a shallow incuse square. BMC 15. Tziambazis 17. Zapiti & Michaelidou 5-6. An interesting coin, overstruck on a near contemporary coin of Amathus, as Amandry 126A, dated to 450-430 BC. Struck from a heavily worn obverse die and with considerable traces of overstriking, otherwise, good fine/extremely fine.
From a German collection, formed prior to 2005.Coins of Amathus have been recognized as the host-flans for three other staters of Azbaal: a) Roma e-43, 2018, 201; b) CNG e-446, 2019, 131; c) Naumann 73, 2019, 240. The relative fine condition of the undertypes allows us to assume that the coins of Amathus did not circulate for long before being used as flans for Azbaal's coins. It would be interesting to speculate that Azbaal of Kition deliberately chose to remove the Amathuntine issues from circulation for political reasons.