Two Choice Kyzikos Staters

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 591. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 500-450 BC. EL Stater (15.94 g). Youthful male figure, wearing tainia with frontal spike, kneeling right, holding [knife] and tunny / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 113; SNG France 245. Good VF, light scrape in field on obverse. Exceptional for issue.

While not exceptionally rare, almost all of the published examples have all or part of the head of the figure off the flan. Also, most of the published specimens exhibit considerably more wear than the present example.