Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 124 23 Jun 2021
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Mysia, Cyzicus.
Stater circa 450-400, EL 16.04 g. Orestes, naked but for chlamys over his shoulders, holding a sword in his r. hand and crouching l. beside the Delphic omphalos, on which his l. hand rests; below, tunny r. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square with rough surfaces. W. Wroth, Greek Coins acquired by the British Museum in 1888, NC 1889, p. 257, 24 and pl. XII, 11. von Fritze, 165 and pl. V, 13. Boston 1532.
Very rare. A very interesting and fascinating representation, very fine
Ex Hess-Leu 31, 1966, 396 and New York XXVII, 2012, Prospero, 453 sales.
Stater circa 450-400, EL 16.04 g. Orestes, naked but for chlamys over his shoulders, holding a sword in his r. hand and crouching l. beside the Delphic omphalos, on which his l. hand rests; below, tunny r. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square with rough surfaces. W. Wroth, Greek Coins acquired by the British Museum in 1888, NC 1889, p. 257, 24 and pl. XII, 11. von Fritze, 165 and pl. V, 13. Boston 1532.
Very rare. A very interesting and fascinating representation, very fine
Ex Hess-Leu 31, 1966, 396 and New York XXVII, 2012, Prospero, 453 sales.