Watch List notes:

CILICIA, Mallos. Circa 390-385 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 10.28 g, 6h). Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left; barley grain to left / Herakles wrestling with the Nemean Lion; MAΛ and club to left. Casabonne Type 7; SNG France 398; SNG Levante Supp. 24 (same rev. die); Sunrise 87 (this coin). Good VF, small area of weak strike in center of obverse, some die wear on reverse. Very rare, one of only three in CoinArchives.


From the Sunrise Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 250 (8 May 2007), lot 29.