Mysia, Kyzikos EL Stater. Circa 500-450 BC. Winged sphinx, with 'lock of immortality' on head, crouching to left, with right forepaw raised; tunny to below / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze 72, pl. II, 25; Boston 1450; SNG France 200. 16.14g, 20mm.
Good Very Fine. Very Rare.
From a private German collection;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-LIVE Auction 3, 25 October 2018, lot 180.
The so-called 'lock of immortality', rendered as a spiral tendril or plume on the head of the sphinx, is a device with Egyptian roots that appears on similar images across the Near East.