MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.70 g). Youthful male figure, wearing tainia with frontal spike, kneeling right, [holding knife in right hand], extending left arm upon which is a tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 113; Greenwell 88; Boston MFA 1480 = Warren 1507; SNG BN 255-8; BMC 32; Gulbenkian 619; Jameson 2185; Weber 4981. Lightly toned. EF. Well struck on a broad flan.
From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Triton XX (10 January 2017), lot 233.
Price realized | 5'500 USD |
Starting price | 900 USD |
Estimate | 1'500 USD |