Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 274. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. 5th-4th centuries BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.64 g). Bull, with filleted horns, standing right, head left, on tunny / Quadripartite incuse square. Hurter & Liewald I 41; Von Fritze I -; SNG France -; SNG von Aulock -; Boston MFA -; Rosen 512. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, the second or third known.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 57 (28 March 2001), lot 379.

Rosen 512 listed his coin as the “second known,” but Hurter & Liewald only located his example.