Watch List notes:

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (18mm, 2.66 g). Lion standing right, biting into the leg of its prey, on tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Sternberg XI, lot 106 = LHS 102, lot 259 (same dies), otherwise unpublished as a hekte, but cf. Von Fritze I 177 for issue. Near EF. Extremely rare, apparently the second known.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Roma XII (29 September 2016), lot 302.

Interestingly, there is also a fourrée hekte known for this issue: CNG E-353, lot 141 = CNG E-337, lot 81.