MYSIA. Kyzikos. Circa 500-450 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 11 mm, 2.73

MYSIA. Kyzikos. Circa 500-450 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 11 mm, 2.73 g, 12 h). Infant Herakles (?), nude, seated facing, head turned to right, propping himself up with his left hand while holding tunny in his right. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. Nomos 22 (2021), 160. SNG Paris -, cf. 316 (stater). Von Fritze -, cf. 169 (stater). Very rare. The obverse double struck, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.


From a British collection of electrum coins from Lesbos and Ionia, formed in the early 2000s.