MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 500-475 BC. EL Stater (16.01 gm). Goat's head left; 
      tunny upwards behind / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze 48, pl. 1, 
      49 (this coin); Rosen 438 (this coin); Dewing 2164; Boston MFA 1421; 
      Jameson 1410; Traité pl. clxxvii, 17; Weber 5018. Near EF, well centered. 
      Rare. ($10,000) Ex Marion A Sinton Collection (Triton III, 30 November - 1 
      December 1999), lot 487; Rosen Collection (Monnaies et Médailles Vente 72, 
      6 October 1987), lot 184; Philipsen Collection (Hirsch Auktion XXV, 29 
      November 1909), lot 1751. 
The celebrated electrum coinage of Kyzikos began 
      in the second half of the sixth century, but is at its most varied and 
      interesting during the classical period. These staters were regarded as 
      gold coins and circulated worldwide along with the gold darics of Persian 
      Empire. On its coins, large or small, was engraved the tunny-fish 
      (thynnos), which constituted an important part of the Kyzikene economy. 
      The long awaited corpus initiated by the late Friedrich Bodenstedt is now 
      being continued by Maria Kaiser-Raiss. In the meantime we can only consult 
      the synthesis of material put together by von Fritze in 1914. 

Triton V Sale, 16 Jan 2002, lot 1405.

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