Mysia, Cyzicus Stater circa 450-400, EL 16.10 g. Youthful Dionysus, wearing a himation, reclining l. on a rock, which is covered with a panther's skin, and holding a cantharus; below, tunny-fish l. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Greenwell 38 and pl. II, 15. White Gold p. 418, 105-106. von Fritze 155 and pl. V, 3. SNG France 302. SNG von Aulock 7307.
Rare. Of lovely style, obverse slightly off-centre, otherwise good very fine
Ex New York sale XXVII, 2012, Prospero, 450. Privately purchased from Athena, Munich, in January 1990.
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