Watch List notes:

Cyprus, Kition AR Stater. Azbaal, circa 449-425 BC. Herakles in fighting stance to right, wearing lion skin upon his back and tied around neck, holding club overhead in right hand and bow extended before him in left hand; uncertain monogram between legs / Lion attacking stag crouching to right; L'ZB'L (in Aramaic and retrograde) above; all inside dotted border within incuse square. SNG Copenhagen 9-10; Zapiti & Michaelidou 5-6; Tziambazis 17. 10.98g, 22mm, 3h.

Near Very Fine; struck from worn dies; test cut to edge on rev. Rare with the legend this visible.

From the collection of an antiquarian, Bavaria c. 1960s-1990s.