CNG 103, Lot: 204. Estimate $500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 500-450 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.29 g). Bearded head left, wearing helmet in the style of a griffin’s head; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Hurter & Liewald I 17b; Von Fritze I –; Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; cf. SNG von Aulock 7291 (hekte). Near EF. Well centered and struck. Extremely rare denomination for type.