CILICIA, Tarsos. Circa 389-375 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 10.45 g, 6h). Herakles kneeling left, strangling the Nemean Lion on horizontal club below / Head of Hera left, wearing stephane decorated with palmette between two circles containing large pellets, single-pendant earring, and pearl necklace; TEPΣIKO[N] to left. Casabonne Group J1; SNG BN 235; SNG Levante 63; SNG von Aulock –; Athena Fund II 795 (same obv. die); Gillet 1166. Faintly toned, some porosity, area of die rust on obverse. Good VF. Fine style.
Ex G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 3974; Sternberg XXXV (29 October 2000), lot 295.
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