Statere di elettro di Lampsaco, nella Misia.

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Salve.

Tra le monete rare e di qualità in rete

MYSIA, LAMPSACUS
El Stater (15.23 g) c. 480-450 B.C. Forepart of Pegasus with curved wings / Quadripartite incuse square. BMC 9.

Rare.

good Very Fine

 

 

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Statere simile della stessa zecca.

MYSIA, LAMPSACUS
El Stater (15.24 g) c. 480-450 B.C. Forepart of Pegasus with curved wings / Quadripartite incuse square. BMC 9.

Rare.

Good Very Fine

 

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Statere dell’asta Leu 11 & 12.

Lot 111

MYSIA. Lampsakos. Circa 411 BC. Stater (Electrum, 21 mm, 15.22 g). Forepart of Pegasos to left; Ξ below; around, grapevine. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square; two quarters raised. Baldwin, Electrum, p. 9 (this coin) and pl. I, 12a-k. BMC pl. XVIII, 8 (same dies). Jameson 1432 (same dies). Kraay & Hirmer 727 (same dies). SNG Paris 1112 (same dies). SNG von Aulock 1292 (same dies). Traité pl. VIII, 4 (same dies). Warren 1591-1592 (same dies). Rare and with an illustrious pedigree. A wonderful piece, beautifully toned and of exceptionally fine style. Light scratches and minor deposits on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine.

From the Paramount Collection, Heritage 3096, 25 March 2021, 30027, ex UBS 56, 28 January 2003, 126, from the collections of W. Niggeler, Bank Leu/Münzen & Medaillen AG, 3-4 December 1965, 363 and Marquis Carlo Strozzi, Sambon & Sangiorgi, 15 April 1907, 1582, and likely from the 1875 Vourla Hoard (IGCH 1194).
 

Estimate: 25000 CHF. Starting price: 20000 CHF.

La didascalia è accompagnata da un’ampia descrizione di queste emissioni.

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Statere in elettro della Misia che sarà presentato nella stessa asta del precedente.

Lot 112

MYSIA. Uncertain, circa 450-330 BC. Stater (Electrum, 20 mm, 16.00 g), Phokaic standard. Forepart of Pegasos to left; below, spear head to right. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square of windmill pattern with stippled quarters. Triton XIX (2016), 168 (same dies), otherwise unpublished. Of the highest rarity, the second known example. A spectacular coin of exceptional beauty, boldly struck and of wonderful style. A few light marks, otherwise, extremely fine.

Reminiscent of the Lampsakean Pegasos series (see lot 111 above), this coin differs significantly in its heavier weight standard and the fabric of the stippled quarters on its reverse incuse, both of which are much more in alignment with the well-known electrum coinage from Kyzikos. However, the great Mysian trade port always signed its coins with its civic coat of arms, the tunny, whereas we find a spear head below the Pegasos on this coin. The cataloguer of the Triton example described it as an issue from a colony or outpost of Kyzikos, which, though an interesting suggestion, is for now entirely speculative (also, a Kyzikan outpost does not necessarily have to be located in Mysia). The fact of the matter is that we do not know where these two beautiful coins originated, although the spear head symbol does perhaps reflect a military background for the issue.

Estimate: 20000 CHF. Starting price: 16000 CHF.

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