CRETE, Phaistos. Circa 300-270 BC. AR Stater (25.5mm, 11.79 g, 12h). Herakles, nude but for lion skin draped over left arm, standing left, his left hand extended and holding one head of the Hydra, which he strikes at with club held aloft in his right hand; crab between his legs below / Bull advancing right; ΦAIΣTIΩN above. Svoronos, Numismatique 64 (same dies); Le Rider, Crétoises, pl. XXIII, 24 var. (rev. type left; same obv. die); Mionnet II p. 291, 253 (same obv. die). Faintly toned, traces of find patina, slightly weak strike. Good VF.
Ex Roma X (27 September 2015), lot 381 (hammer £13,000).
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