MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (20mm, 16.04 g).

CNG Feature Auction 120
Lot: 289. Estimated: $ 3 000

Greek, Electrum

Sold For $ 6 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (20mm, 16.04 g). Facing head of Silenos, protruding tongue; at sides, two tunnies upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 77 (unlisted denomination); cf. Greenwell 45 (same); cf. Boston MFA 1424 = Warren 1465 (hekte); cf. SNG BN 208 (hekte); BMC –; cf. FSD SHM 1193 (hemihekte); Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Myrmekion –; cf. Rosen 455 (hekte); Weber –; M.J. Price, “1. A Field in Western Thrace” in CH II, 2 = Hess-Divo 325, lot 210 = Sincona 10, lot 113 = Vinchon (24 Nov. 1994), lot 61. Very light roughness. VF. Well centered.

From the Siren Collection.


The final winners of all CNG 120 lots will be determined at the live online sale that will be held on 11-12 May 2022. CNG 120 – Session One – Greek Coinage (Part 1) will be held Wednesday morning, 11 May 2022 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 22.50% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and the stable previous version of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.