CNG 102, Lot: 383. Estimate $10000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. 5th-4th centuries BC. EL Stater (16mm, 16.00 g). Apollo seated half-left, wearing laurel wreath and chiton draped from waist, holding branch in right hand, on griffin springing right; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 151; Greenwell 20; SNG France –; Boston MFA 1545 = Warren 1438. VF, toned. Very rare, only one in CoinArchives.

From the LVL Collection.

This, one of the more intricate scenes on the Kyzikene electrum, probably depicts Hyperborean Apollo en-route to the land where griffins controlled gold, a myth mentioned by Herodotos (3.116).