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Kraay & Hirmer Plate Coin

Triton XVIII, Lot: 579. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 390-341/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 14.90 g, 12h). Head of Kore Soteira left, wearing single-pendant earring, hair in sphendone covered with a veil, two grain ears in hair; [ΣΩTEIPA above] / Head of lion left, mouth open with tongue protruding; below, tunny left; KY-ZI around, hydria behind. Pixodarus Type 2, Group C; von Fritze II 23, pl. V, 32; SNG France 400-1; SNG von Aulock 7339; SNG Copenhagen 53; SNG Fitzwilliam 4151; Kraay & Hirmer 719 (this coin). Near EF, toned, a couple light marks under tone on obverse.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 76 [Exceptional Private Collection] (27 October 1999), lot 151.