Extremely Rare Early Stater

Triton XX, Lot: 188. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Stater (20.5mm, 15.96 g). Tunny left above tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Künker 280, lot 201; otherwise unpublished, but cf. Hurter & Liewald III 36 (= Von Fritze I 15) for similar fractions with subsidiary symbols. VF, double struck on reverse. Extremely rare.

See following lot for the hekte - sixth stater of this type.