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CNG 108, Lot: 167. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.35 g). Laureate head of Zeus right set on [tunny right] / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze –; Greenwell –; Hurter & Liewald I 1 var. (unlisted denomination); cf. Gulbenkian 671 = Hermitage Sale II 1175 (stater). Good VF. Unique as a hemihekte; an unpublished denomination of an extremely rare issue.

Hurter and Liewald identified three staters and one myshemihekte for this issue that was unknown to von Fritze. The addition of the hemihekte to the issue suggests that there probably also was a hekte, which has yet to be discovered.