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Electronic Auction 480

Lot nuber 220

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (5.5mm, 0.60 g). Lydo-Milesian standard.


Electronic Auction 480
Lot: 220.
 Estimated: $ 300

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IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (5.5mm, 0.60 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Crude chimaira(?) right on striated background / Incuse square. Cf. Linzalone 1043 (stater); cf. Gulbenkian 719 (stater); Triton XIV, lot 302 (same rev. punch); CNG E-468, lot 106 (same dies); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. VF. Extremely rare as a myshemihekte, apparently the third known.

The Gulbenkian coin was the first of this type to be discovered. Before it appeared in the Gulbenkian catalog, however, E.S.G. Robinson published it in the ANS Centennial volume (p. 586, no. 2), where it was described as a dolphin. Jenkins, in his catalog description in Gulbenkian, countered that it was more likely a depiction of a bird, and, in private correspondence, Weidauer concurred with his interpretation. The debate lay dormant until a denominational set of this issue, from stater to myshemihekte, appeared in Triton XIV (lots 298–302). Although the full details of the type remained unclear, there was a strong consistency to the outline of the form, which suggested that the element protruding from one side of the form was the head of a goat. This discovery makes it quite likely that the type is a chimaira at bay right, with the hind legs and forepart of the lion off the flan. Nonetheless, until an example is found with a large enough flan to encompass the totality of the type, the debate shall continue.

Closing Date and Time: 11 November 2020 at 11:13:00 ET.

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