Mysia, Kyzikos EL Stater. Circa 550-500 BC. Laureate male head left, hair cropped short (in curls?) and rendered as dots; tunny fish downward behind / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze 62, pl. II, 13; SNG France -; Traité II 2587 = Boston MFA 1430. 15.98g, 19mm.
Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare; the finest known specimen of the type - only one other example is present in CoinArchives, and this is in exceedingly poor condition. Both the von Fritze plate coin and the Boston example are similarly poorly preserved.
From the collection of D.G., United Kingdom;
Ex Gorny & Mosch 215, 13 October 2013, lot 866.