Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 696. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 500-450 BC. EL Stater (15.91 g). Warrior, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, kneeling right, checking the straightness of his arrow, bow hung over his left wrist; tunny downward behind / Quadripartite incuse punch. Von Fritze I 117; SNG France 263-264. Fine.

This type is part of a sub-series of Kyzikene staters that depict a warrior, in this case an archer, in the various stages of preparing his equipment for battle (Von Fritze I 115-117). It is not known whether this sub-series depicts any particular hero.