Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVII 28 Mar 2019
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Mysia, Kyzikos EL Hekte. Circa 400-330 BC. Sphinx seated to left; tunny fish to left below / Quadripartite incuse square. Roma XV, 240 (same obv. die); CNG e348, 262 (fourrée hekte); cf. Hurter & Liewald I, 27 (not recorded as a hekte); cf. Jameson III, 2205 (stater); otherwise unpublished. 2.66g, 11mm.
Extremely Fine; the second known example of this denomination.
From the collection of P.R., United Kingdom.
The type of a sphinx seated (rather than standing or recumbent) was unknown to von Fritze, and was first encountered as a stater in the 1921 Pozzi sale, with a further three staters the 1/12 and 1/24 fractional denominations since recorded. A fourrée hekte in a 2015 CNG e-auction strongly suggested the existence of the hekte denomination, but it remained unknown until an example was published in Roma XV, 5 April 2018 (lot 240).
Extremely Fine; the second known example of this denomination.
From the collection of P.R., United Kingdom.
The type of a sphinx seated (rather than standing or recumbent) was unknown to von Fritze, and was first encountered as a stater in the 1921 Pozzi sale, with a further three staters the 1/12 and 1/24 fractional denominations since recorded. A fourrée hekte in a 2015 CNG e-auction strongly suggested the existence of the hekte denomination, but it remained unknown until an example was published in Roma XV, 5 April 2018 (lot 240).