Watch List notes:

Mysia, Kyzikos, electrum hekte, c. 410 BC, naked Helios kneeling right holding foreparts of two horses prancing to left and right; tunny fish below, rev., quadripartite incuse square, 2.67g (Jameson 2194, this coin; SNG von Aulock 7312, this coin; Kraay-Hirmer 715, this coin; von Fritze 149; BMC 106), extremely fine and extremely rare, probably the finest known and from the Jameson and von Aulock collections. Provenance: R. Jameson collection, Paris; Hans von Aulock collection; Bank Leu 38, 13 May 1986, lot 98; DNW, 22 June 2011, lot 1017; Princely Collection, Morton & Eden 86, 24 May 2017, lot 25. The engravers of the Kyzicene coinage drew their ideas from numerous sources, both local and foreign. Here, the inter-connected mythological relationships of Helios to Apollo; and Apollo as father to the city-founder Kyzikos point to an indigenous origin. The symmetrically balanced composition of the sun-god Helios flanked by the horses' foreparts must have been sculptural in inspiration and the observation that the composition is perfectly square (Head, NC, 1877, p. 170 [J.P. Six]) suggests that it has "been copied from a metope of a temple." (Greenwell, p. 59). Although full staters bearing this composition exist in some numbers, the hektes are exceedingly rare. The only example noted by Greenwell was acquired by the British Museum in 1841 and is well-worn.
(10000-15000 GBP)