Watch List notes:

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.02 g). Winged creature, with the head and torso of a horned dolphin, the abdomen, arms, and legs of a nude human, swimming/flying left, holding in its right hand the tail of a tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Von Fritze I 79 (unlisted denomination); Greenwell –; Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; BMC –; Gillet –; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –; Kraay & Hirmer 699 = Prinkipo 57; Weber –; Triton XX, lot 226; Roma XI, lot 407. VF. Extremely rare, the fifth known, with one in a public collection (Berlin [ex Prinkipo]).


From the Siren Collection.