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408, Lot: 143. Estimate $200.
Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (6mm, 0.69 g). Zeus kneeling right, chiton draped from waist, holding scepter in right arm, left arm extended, above which an eagle stands right, with open wings; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 145 (unlisted denomination); cf. Boston MFA 1530 = Warren 1422 (stater); cf. SNG BN 296 (stater); FSD SHM 1218 = T.M. Smekalova & J.L. Djukov, “The Composition of the Alloy of Cyzicene Electrum Coins” in RBN 145 (1999), 40 and pl. V, 39. VF, toned, slightly off center on obverse. Very rare denomination for issue, four in CoinArchives.