Triton XX, Lot: 224. Estimate $20000. Sold for $22500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 16.02 g). Double-bodied sphinx with one head facing, wearing ouraios; both atop tunny / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 128 (hekte); cf. Greenwell 101 (same); Hurter & Liewald –; Boston MFA –; cf. SNG BN 280 (same); BMC –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Weber –; CNG Inventory 925160; Roma XII, lot 299 = Roma VIII, lot 631; Roma X, lot 493. EF. Extremely rare as a stater, apparently the fourth known.