Mysia. Cyzicus. 500-450 BC. EL Stater (16.05g). Baldwin Brett 1495; von Fritze 175. Very rare. Old cabinet tone. A lovely coin. Good very fine. From a private collection; Spink 1993 (96) lot 99; former Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovitch (1866-1933) collection, Naville 1922 (4) lot 747

In Greek mythology, Scylla is a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite Charybdis. Scylla is first attested in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus and his crew encounter her and Charybdis on their travels. The idiom 'between Scylla and Charybdis' has come to mean being forced to choose between two similarly dangerous situations