Watch List notes:

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 1.36 g). Head of tunny left; below, headless tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Hurter & Liewald III 12.2; Von Fritze I –; Boston MFA –; cf. SNG BN 165 (hekte); Rosen 416 = SNG von Aulock 7262. Good VF. Very rare, two noted by Hurter & Liewald, five in CoinArchives (including the present piece).


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Roma XI (7 April 2016), lot 386.