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Auction 21  21 Nov 2020
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Lot 234

Estimate: 4500 CHF
Price realized: 3600 CHF
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CYPRUS. Salamis. Evagoras I, circa 411-374 BC. Stater (Silver, 21 mm, 11.15 g, 9 h). [E u fa go ro], (in Cypriot syllabic script) Head of bearded Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress. Rev. Ba - si le fo se eu (in combined Cypriot and Greek letters) He-goat with long horns and beard seated right on dotted ground line. Cf. BMC 55 and BMFA 2144 (without the kerykeion on the reverse). Masson & Amandry Be. 4 = Kunstfreund 226 (same dies). A very rare variety. Of excellent style and sharply struck. Struck on a slightly short flan and with some die rust, otherwise, extremely fine.

From a Dutch collection, formed late in the previous century.
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