Watch List notes:

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.31 g). Head of lion left; tunny to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. von Fritze I 39 (unlisted denomination); cf. Boston MFA 1414–5 (larger denominations); cf. SNG BN 178–80 (same); Adams I 1407; Rosen 433. Toned. VF. Extremely rare as a hemihekte, only seven in CoinArchives.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Roma XI (7 April 2016), lot 387.