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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater 747 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.65g). Tunny left with wing on back / Quadripartite incuse square. Extremely rare. Well centered. Extremely fine.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater 735 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.35g). Head of tunny right; below, small tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater718 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.32g). Head of tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. EF. Exceptional strike. Very rare, and better than the three recorded by Hurter & Liewald. Alighieri Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater708 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.68g). Nude youth kneeling right, hair bound by taenia with frontal projection, holding a tunny fish in his extended left hand / Quadripartite incuse square. EF, lightly toned. Ex Triton VI (1/2003), lot 307.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL Stater707 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Stater (15.98g). Triton swimming left, holding wreath in left hand; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Extremely rare and undoubtedly the finest specimen known. Fine style, perfectly struck and centered on a full flan. Good extremely fine.
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Kyzikos (BC 460-400) EL 1/6 Stater706 viewsca 450-400 BC. EL Hekte (2.7g). Head of Attis right, wearing a Phyrgian cap / Quadripartite incuse square. aEF.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/12 Stater 702 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.32g). Winged tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Very rare, and exceptional for issue.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater 688 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.68g). Head of boar right, holding in its mouth a tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Extremely rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL Stater687 viewslate 6th century BC. EL Stater (15.63g). Prow of galley left, with ram in the form of a winged forepart of collared wolf or dog; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Extremely rare, the finest of five specimens known of which only three are in private hands. Extremely fine.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL Stater683 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Stater (16.15g). Head of tunny right; above and below, small tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Extremely rare and a very important and intriguing issue. Very Fine. Apparently unpublished as a stater.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/12 Stater670 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 1.34g). Nude male kneeling left, holding tunny by its tail / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Well centered.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater659 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.67g). Head of Amazon (or Perseus) left, wearing winged cap; behind, tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, a few marks. Extremely rare in this denomination.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater659 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (10mm, 2.62g). Harpy flying left, [holding tunny] / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF.
A winged spirit in ancient mythology best known for constantly stealing the food from Phineas, the harpy was a hybrid of a bird and a woman. Earlier mythology represented them as beautiful women with wings and lovely hair, whereas later Roman and Byzantine writers depicted them as the most ugly of creatures.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater659 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (10mm, 2.65 g). Louvar fish left; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, minor die break on the obverse. Extremely rare and apparently the second known.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater650 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.66g, 10mm). Prow of galley left terminating in forepart of winged hound or wolf; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Very rare. Carr coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater 649 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.33g). Head of tunny right; above and below, small tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 430-370) EL 1/6 Stater643 views5th-4th century BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (9mm, 2.49g). Kithara; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Fine. Very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 400-330) EL 1/12 Stater642 viewsca 450-330 BC. EL Hemihekte - 1/12 Stater (8mm, 1.35g). Laureate head of Zeus right set on [tunny right] / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Unique as a hemihekte; an unpublished denomination of an extremely rare issue.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/24 Stater638 viewsca 6th century BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.6g, 7mm). Human-headed bull walking left / Quadripartite incuse punch. gVF. Apparently second known.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater628 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte (10mm, 2.65g). Head of steer left; tunny behind / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Unpublished denomination, possibly unique.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater627 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.64g, 11mm). Female head left on raised disk; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. gVF. Apparently unpublished in the standard references with a female head.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/12 Stater625 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.35g). Forepart of ibex left; behind, tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/6 Stater 616 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.66g). Head of tunny right; above and below, headless tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Extremely rare, unpublished as a hekte.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/12 Stater605 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.35g). Forepart of Pegasos left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL Stater602 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Stater (15.96g, 20.5mm). Tunny left above tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, double struck on reverse. Extremely rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Hekte601 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte (2.69g, 10.5mm). Head of Perseus to left, wearing winged helmet with hair hanging beneath and represented by dots; behind, tunny swimming downwards / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. A rare type with about 20 known. Carr coll.
William Greenwell, in his 1887 tome entitled: The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, notes that the helmet is the helmet of Hades lent to him by the nymphs. The reference by Greenwell is to the ‘mission’ of Perseus to cut-off the head of Medusa. The next coin in the Greenwell listing notes a type where much of the detail of this slaying is depicted – see Coin ID #14069.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater 600 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.34g). Head of tunny left, holding in its mouth a small tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater600 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.71g). Eagle standing right on tunny left; to upper left, tunny right / Incuse square punch. VF. Rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater599 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.70g). Forepart of dog (or roaring lion?) left, head right; tunny to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned. Extremely rare, apparently the second known. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica L (5/2001), lot 1332.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater 593 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.33g). Tunny right; above, tail of tunny left; below, head of tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/24 Stater589 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (7mm, 0.63g). Head of tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Extremely rare denomination. Ex Künker 133 (10/2007), lot 8126.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL Stater589 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.11g). Head of female left, wearing sphendone; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, a few edge splits. Unique stater denomination for this issue.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater589 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.65g). Male naked and bearded figure riding dolphin left, holding tunny in his outstretched right hand; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Rare. Of lovely style and extremely fine.
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Kyzikos (BC 450-330) EL Hekte582 viewsca 450-330 BC. EL Hekte (2.66g, 10mm). Perseus kneeling right, head reverted, wearing a winged hood, cloak over shoulders fastened with circular brooch on breast, head of Medusa in left hand, sickle (harpa) in right; below, tunny fish right / Quadripartite incuse square. Unusually well centered, gVF. Carr coll.
The ‘Perseus’ emissions are known for denominations of stater through 1/96th. Most examples do not capture the whole ‘scene’ - commonly either the head of Perseus or Medusa being off the flan. This coin is possibly the second best published example capturing the major features [For an example that is even sharper in its detail, see Gemini IX (1/2012) lot 105].
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater 571 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.64g). Facing lion’s head; to right, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Stater 565 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Stater (20mm, 16.05g). Half-length figure of winged female (harpy?) left; to left, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, toned. Very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater564 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.66g, 10mm). Winged hound or wolf crouching left, head right; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL Stater562 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Stater (17mm, 16.04g). Nude youth kneeling left, right hand holding tunny by its tail / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, lightly toned. Nicely centered.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater529 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte (2.66g, 12mm). Winged male mythological creature (Phobos or Daimon) with human body, lion head, griffin’s ears and wings, running/kneeling left, head turned right, holding tunny by tail in left hand / Quadripartite incuse square. NGC graded Choice XF, strike 5/5, surface 4/5, nicely centered, struck from artistic dies. An excellent example of archaic representation of local deity from Asia Minor. Carr coll.
A remarkable mythological type usually known from the stater with the same design. At times identified as Phobos, the personification of terror, the figure may also be the Mithraic divinity Areimanios (Ahriman) as argued by Bivar, "Mithra and Mesopotamia," Mithraic Studies (Manchester, 1975), pp. 275-89.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/24 Stater503 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24th Stater (7mm, 0.65g). Tunny head left / Rough incuse punch. Good VF. Lee Coll.; ex Rosen Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/12498 viewsca 550-Â500 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (9mm, 1.30g). Head of lion left; tunny to right / Quadripartite incuse square.Good VF. Extremely rare as a hemihekte.
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Kyzikos (BC 460-400) EL 1/6 Stater496 viewsca 460-400 BC. EL Hekte (2.60g, 10mm). Head of Attis (Atys) facing right, wearing Phyrgian cap [below tuna right?] / Quadripartite incuse square. nEF. Carr coll.
Known type for a stater (at least 10 sold at auction, see Coin ID #9333 and #6817), hekte (1/6th Stater) (at least 12 sold at auction, see Coin ID #9330 and #9332), hemihekte (1/12th Stater) (at least 9 sold at auction, see Coin ID #9329) and Myshemihekte (1/24th Stater) (at least 6 sold at auction, see Coin ID #11022). In some instances, it appears that the die for the stater was used on hekte and, as such, the tuna is off the flan. This example is from an unknown die. In some cases, Attis is wearing a conspicuously jeweled Phyrgian cap (see Coin ID #9332) and in others, the jewels are less conspicuous or absent.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Stater490 viewsca 550Â-500 BC. EL Stater (16.06g). Ram crouching left, head reverted; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Very rare. A lovely representation struck on a very broad flan, two almost invisible metal flaws, otherwise good very fine.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater488 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.35g). Head of tunny right, vertical tunny fish behind / Quadripartite incuse square. Very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/12 Stater485 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (9mm, 1.37g). Lioness or panther at bay left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Very rare as a hemihekte.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater478 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (12mm, 2.64g). Lioness or panther at bay left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square.Good VF, light cleaning marks, edge split, minor flan flaw on reverse.
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Kyzikos (BC 550Â-500) EL 1/6 Stater476 viewsca 550Â-500 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.68g). Facing head of Silenos; at sides, two tunnies upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/12 Stater474 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (8.5mm, 1.33g). Winged dog standing left, head right, on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/24 Stater473 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Myshemihekte – 1/24 Stater (7mm, 0.68g). Head of Zeus-Ammon right [on tunny right] / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Very rare as a myshemihekte.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater467 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.67g, 10mm). Head of boar right, holding in its mouth a tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Well centered. Extremely rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/12 Stater458 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.31g). Head of female left, hair in sphendone, on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square.EF. Well centered and struck. Very rare as a hemihekte.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/12 Stater437 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.32g). Wolf at bay left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/12 Stater435 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.34g). Facing head of panther; to lower right, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Koppersmith Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater429 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.73g, 11mm). Ketos left; tunny above / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, rare, minting problems.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/12 Stater421 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (9mm, 1.36g). Head of boar right, holding tunny fish in mouth / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Well centered obverse.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/24 Stater411 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (6mm, 0.66g). Head of Zeus right, wearing horn of Ammon; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Extremely rare denomination.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12409 viewsca 600Â-550 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.30g). Fish left, tunny below / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Extremely rare, only one example noted by Hurter & Liewald, who also cast doubt on the attribution of the issue to Kyzikos.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater405 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.68g). Lion seated left, raising forepaw, on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square.VF, lightly toned.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL Stater 393 views550-450 BC. EL Stater (16.06g, 22mm). Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet, base of crest decorated with zig-zag and pellet pattern; tunny fish left below / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Carr coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL Stater389 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Stater (16.08g, 19mm). Tunny fish left above tunny fish right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Extremely Rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL Stater389 viewsCirca 600-550 BC. EL Stater (16.18g, 18.5mm). Two tunny heads back-to-back; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Near VF. Well centered. Extremely rare. LVL Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater379 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.68g). Forepart of lion left, head right; to right, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, lightly toned, struck from slightly worn dies. Extremely rare as hekte, apparently the fourth known. Koppersmith Coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/24 Stater375 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.47g, 6mm). Forepart of a tunny right; pellets around / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/12 Stater374 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hemihekte (1.29g, 8mm). Prow of galley left terminating in forepart of winged hound or wolf; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Rare denomination for this type with only one other known - Gemini IX (1/2012), lot 103. Unpublished in standard references. Carr coll.
William Greenwell, in his 1887 tome entitled "The electrum coinage of Cyzicus," notes only a stater of this type and offers the following speculation: "The expedition of the Argonauts plays an important part in the mythical history of Cyzicus, and the prow represented on the stater is probably that of the ship Argo" (pp. 124-125). See also Coin ID #13239 for a hekte.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/12 Stater 370 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Twelfth Stater (9mm, 1.35g). Forepart of lion left, head right; to right, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned. Well centered. Extremely rare denomination for issue, apparently the third known.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater370 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.71g, 12mm). Nude male kneeling left, holding tunny by its tail, left hand closed fist; dotted hair turned up at back. / Quadripartite incuse square. Rare, known for stater and hemihecte. Ex CNG 85 (9/2010), lot 839, Koppersmith Coll. Carr coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater365 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.7g, 10mm). Head of cock facing right, holding head of tunny / Quadripartite incuse square. Very fine, very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-Â500) EL 1/6 Stater351 viewsca 550-Â500 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.68g). Helmeted head of Athena left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Near EF.
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Kyzikos (BC 460-400) EL Stater343 viewsca 450-330 BC. EL Stater (16.04g, 22mm). Lion standing right, biting into sword, on tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. EF, lightly toned. Well centered and struck.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12335 viewsca 600Â-550 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.34g). Eagle standing right on tunny right; to upper left, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater330 viewsca 500Â-450 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.75g). Wolf at bay left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL 1/6 Stater326 viewsca 550Â-500 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.63g). Head of panther facing; tunny to left / Quadripartite incuse square.Good VF. Very rare variant.
This issue is not only unusual for the placement of the tunny on the left of the facing head, but also for the shape of the ear on the feline. Typically, the ear is depicted, on all denominations of von Fritze 43, with pointed ears, where here they are rounded. Although this is likely the result of the liberty of the engraver, one wonders whether this might be an attempt to depict a totally different animal, such as a bear.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater317 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 1.34g). Head of tunny right, holding eel in its mouth / Quadripartite incuse square. EF. Extremely rare, apparently the fourth known.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater308 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.32g). Tunny left; tunny head above and tail below / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Koppersmith Coll.; ex CNG Elec. Auc. 256 (5/2011), lot 112.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater308 viewsca 550-450 BC. EL 1/6 Stater (2.39g, 11mm). Youthful male figure, holding Corinthian helmet in right hand, sword in left, kneeling left on tunny fish / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Carr coll.
William Greenwell, in his 1887 tome entitled "The electrum coinage of Cyzicus," notes: “Mr. Head in his paper on the coins of the find of 1875 (Num. Chron., N.S., xvi, p. 282), suggests that this figure may be one of the Argonauts, and the attribution is not improbable, the mythical history of Cyzicus being closely connected with their expedition.†Coin ID #13239 and #13744 of Kyzicus also reflect a connection with the Argonauts.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/24 Stater 301 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.67g, 7mm). Lion right, gnawing on leg of prey; below, tunny right / Quadripartite incuse square. gVF.
This is the second of two known that have been offered at auction.
This obverse has very close links to other coinage of a similar period. Early drachmae of Velia have a similar type. Colin M. Kraay [Archaic and Classical Greek Coins (1976), p. 263] comments on the connection of the drachmae and this Kyzikos example, noting the rarity of deliberate reproductions of specific coin types across cities. An almost identical type is also to be found on a hecte emission of Mytilene (Bodenstedt 78 – see, on this website, Coin ID #11257; see also Coin ID #12346).
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/6300 viewsca 600Â-550 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.67g). Tunny left; above, tunny head right; below, tunny tail left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, well centered.
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Kyzikos (BC 550Â-500) EL 1/12 Stater298 viewsca 550Â-500 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.33g). Helmeted head of Athena left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, lightly toned.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/6 Stater294 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.67g, 10mm). Head of tunny left, holding in its mouth a small tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Very fine, very rare. Unpublished as a hekte.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/24 Stater289 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.79g, 8mm). Head of tunny left above head of tunny right / Incuse square. Good VF, a few deposits. Unique. Ex Rosen Coll. (Münzen und Medaillen 72 (10/1987), lot 170.)
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater286 views550-450 BC. EL Hekte (2.62g, 11mm). Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet, base of crest decorated with zig-zag and pellet pattern; tunny fish left below / Quadripartite incuse square. About EF. Carr coll.
This coin is an example of hekte of a type known as a stater – see Coin ID #14563. In addition, examples are known for fractions of 1/12 and 1/24 stater with the hektes being the more abundant example of which at least 20 are known. Head in his 1887 tome, “Historia Nummorum†(figure 271) was an early reference to this type.
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Kyzikos (BC 550Â-500) EL Stater 284 viewsca 550-Â500 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 16.00g). Forepart of Sphinx left; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Near EF, lightly toned, a few edge splits.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater280 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.72g, 11mm). Goat standing left on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned around the devices. Apparently the second known.
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Kyzikos (BC 550Â-500) EL 1/6 Stater268 viewsca 550Â-500 BC. EL Hekte - Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.71g). Primate crouching right, holding tunny in right hand / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Extremely rare - apparently the third known.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Stater267 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Stater (16.06g, 16mm). Forepart of winged cock left; below, tunny downward to left / Quadripartite incuse square. Near VF. Very rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/48 Stater 246 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL 1/48 Stater (0.32g, 7mm). Large tunny head right / Irregular quadripartite incuse square. gVF. Rare denomination with this specific emission being unknown. Carr coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater240 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – 1/12 Stater (1.36g, 8mm). Head of tunny fish left, six pellets around, on raised disk (shield?) / Quadripartite incuse square. NGC Choice AU S 5/5 - 4/5.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/6 Stater235 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.67g, 10mm). Two tunny heads back-to-back; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater235 viewsca 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (2.73g, 11mm). Bearded centaur advancing left, head right, holding branch, on tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, light cleaning marks, rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater231 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.62g, 10.5mm). Forepart of horse to left on tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse. Very rare, one of possibly only four examples known.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Stater224 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Stater (15.99g, 20mm). Ketos to left; tunny fish above / Quadripartite incuse square. Very Fine. Extremely Rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/6 Stater222 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.71g, 11mm). Two tunny fish heads back to back, above a single tunny fish left / Rough incuse square. Extremely rare, exceptionally clean strike and a clear depiction of the tunny fish. NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Stater216 viewsca 550-450 BC. EL Stater (16.11g, 16mm). Head of boar left; to right, tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned. Well centered. Extremely rare, one of two known, the other in a public collection (Moscow/Pushkin).
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL 1/12 Stater216 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hemihekte (1.27g, 8mm). Nude male kneeling left, holding tunny by its tail, left hand closed fist; dotted hair turned up at back. / Quadripartite incuse square. gVF. Carr coll.
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater200 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte (7mm, 1.33g). Forepart of bull right; to left, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. aVF. Extremely rare.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Stater199 viewsca 550-450 BC. EL Stater (16.01g, 17.5mm). Head of steer left; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, lightly toned. Well centered.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Stater191 viewsca 550-500 BC. EL Stater (16.08g). Broad flat fish facing left; tunny below facing left / Quadripartite incuse square. Several obverse flan cracks and splits, otherwise Good VF.
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Kyzikos (BC 550-500) EL Stater173 viewsca 550-450 BC. EL Stater (19.5mm, 15.97g). Double-bodied sphinx with one head facing, wearing ouraios; both atop tunny / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Very rare as a stater, only nine in CoinArchives.
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Kyzikos (BC 500-450) EL Stater 163 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Stater (16.02g, 19mm). Sphinx seated with curved pointed wings, with 'lock of immortality' on head, crouching to left, with right forepaw raised, tunny fish below swimming left / Quadripartite incuse square. VF. Carr coll.
Obverse is from a previously unpublished die with sphinx not standing on tunny, but separated above. The cataloguer notes: “The so called 'lock of immortality', rendered as a spiral tendril or plume on the head of the sphinx, is a device with Egyptian roots that appears on similar images across the Near East.â€
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Kyzikos (BC 600-550) EL 1/12 Stater156 viewsca 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte - 1/12 Stater (1.02g, 8mm). Two tunny heads left, one above the other; pellet above and below; behind, tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, toned.
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