MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (15mm, 15.91 g). Near VF.

CNG Feature Auction 133
Lot: 282. Estimated: $ 5 000

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Electrum

Sold For $ 11 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (15mm, 15.91 g). Head of Dionysos right, wearing diadem decorated with ivy wreath; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 138; Boston MFA 1529 = Warren 1455; CN Online Type 12272; HGC 8, 164. Near VF. Very rare.

This type is glowingly referred to by Greenwell (p. 67), “Head of Dionysus, as noble in expression as it is beautifully executed. The god is here presented as manifesting the strength and repose of nature, not as when she appears in the activity and tumult of production, but when she has provided all that sustains and gladdens the life of man, and rests, though without fatigue, from her labor.

It may be contrasted, and much to its advantage, with the head of the god on the coins of the Sicilian Naxus, which, beautiful as it is, does not possess the calm dignity of the Cyzicene picture. It may be compared with the head on the tetradrachms and drachms of Thasus, which for breadth of treatment and majestic quietness with strength, is not surpassed by any head in the whole Greek coin series.”

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CNG Feature Auction 133 – Session One – Lot 1-308 will be held Tuesday morning, 15 September 2026 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

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