374, Lot: 239. Estimate $200. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MYSIA, Kyzikos. 5th-4th centuries BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.66 g). Young Dionysos, holding kantharos in extended right hand, reclining left on panther skin draped over rock; [thyrsos to left]; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 155; Greenwell 38; cf. SNG France 302–3 (stater); Boston MFA 1542. VF, struck from a rusty obverse die. Rare.