CNG 105, Lot: 178. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (16.5mm, 15.89 g). Youthful male figure, wearing tainia with frontal spike, kneeling right [on ground line], holding [knife] in right hand, extending left arm upon which is a tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 113; Greenwell 88; Boston MFA 1479 = Warren 1506; SNG BN 254; BMC 30; Gillet –; cf. Gulbenkian 619 (hekte); cf. Jameson 2185 (hekte); Myrmekion 25–6; cf. Rosen 489–90 (hekte); cf. Weber 4981. VF, toned, slightly off center.