Watch List notes:

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (17mm, 16.01 g). Orestes, nude but for chlamys tied at neck and hanging behind, holding [sword] in his lowered right hand, left hand resting on omphalos to right, kneeling left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 165; Greenwell 72; Boston MFA 1532 = Warren 1488; SNG BN –; cf. BMC 74 (hekte); Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson 2199; Myrmekion –; Prospero 453; Rosen –; Weber –. VF, toned. Well struck. Very rare, one of only six in CoinArchives.


From the J. L. Gomer Collection. Ex Goldberg 90 (2 February 2016), lot 3135; New York Sale IV (17 January 2002), lot 188.