Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 371. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 460-400 BC. EL Stater (15.97 gm, 12h). Triton left, holding tunny in right hand; tunny below / Quadripartite incuse square, granulated. Hurter & Liewald, "Neue Münzentypen der Kyzikener Elektronprägung," SNR 81 (2002), 26 (same obverse die); otherwise unpublished. VF, light scratch in obverse field, well struck. Extremely rare, only the second recorded example. ($7500)

See lot 366 for more information on the electrum coinage of Kyzikos.