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CNG 99, Lot: 189. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 170-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.82 g, 12h). Stephanophoric type. Head of Kore Soteira right, wearing oak wreath / Club left; KYZI-KHNΩN above and below; monogram at top, Φ at bottom; all within oak wreath. Von Fritze II 33; SNG Ashmolean –; SNG France –; SNG von Aulock –; Arslan & Lightfoot 1000–2 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, a scattered light marks under tone. Unusually fine style, probably the earliest of the Kyzikene stephanophoroi. Very rare.