Watch List notes:

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8.5mm, 1.31 g). Lioness or panther at bay left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. CNG 99, lot 181; Savoca 5, lot 194; Naville Numismatics 43, lot = Naville Numismatics 20, lot 68; Sternberg XXXV, lot 261; Sternberg XII, lot 200; otherwise unpublished as a hekte, but cf. Von Fritze I 86 for issue. Toned. Near EF. Well centered. Very rare as a hemihekte, one of only five in CoinArchives.


From the M.J.W. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 85 (15 September 2010), lot 391.