Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVIIAuction date: 9 January 2024
Lot number: 297

Price realized: 3,000 USD   (Approx. 2,748 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


DYNASTS of LYCIA. Kheriga. Circa 440-410 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 7.93 g, 9h). Telmessos mint. Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet / Herakles, nude but for lion skin draped over his head and arm, advancing left, holding bow in extended left hand and club over shoulder in his right; KhERIGA (in Lycian) to right; all in dotted circle within incuse circle. Unpublished. Toned, deposits, struck with worn dies. VF. Apparently unique in the name of Kheriga.

This Athena / Herakles type is known in this exact form on staters in the name of Erbbina (cf. Mørkholm & Zahle II 72 and Falghera 185), but is otherwise unknown in the name of Kheriga.

Estimate: 1500 USD