ANCIENT COINS, GREEK COINS, Mysia, Kyzikos (c.500-450 BC), Electrum Stater, boy (Taras?), naked, seated astride a dolphin to left, holding a tunny by the tail in his extended right hand, a tunny below, rev quadripartite incuse square, 15.83g (BMC 76, pl. VII, 4; W Greenwell, 'The Electrum Coinage of Cyzicus', NC 1887, 9, pl. I, 9; SNG France 251; Von Fritze, Nomisma VII, 1912, 110, pl. III, 29; Boston 1486; cf Rosen 487 for Hekte). Very fine, toned, light smoothing on obverse, very rare.
purchased from Athena, Munich, 12 February 1990
ex Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, Baldwin/Markov/M&M, 4 January 2012, lot 442, sold for US$10,530
Estimate: £6500-7500