CNG 102, Lot: 382. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. 5th-4th centuries BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (6.5mm, 0.64 g). Young Dionysos, holding kantharos in extended right hand, reclining left on panther skin draped over rock; [thyrsos to left]; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 155 (unlisted denomination); Greenwell 38 (unlisted denomination); cf. SNG France 302–3 (stater); cf. Boston MFA 1541–2 (stater & hekte); Gorny & Mosch 199, lot 351; G. Hirsch 233, lot 1417 = G. Hirsch 205, lot 265 = G. Hirsch 203, lot 242; Pecunem 32, lot 118. Good VF. Well centered. Extremely rare as a myshemihekte, only two in CoinArchives.