Extremely Rare Depiction of a Primate
CNG 99, Lot: 178. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.71 g). Primate crouching right, holding tunnny in right hand / Quadripartite incuse square. Hurter & Liewald I 30a; Gorny & Mosch 90, lot 282 (same dies); Gorny & Mosch 199, 320 (same dies). VF. Extremely rare – apparently the third known.