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MISIA, Kyzikos. Hekte. (El. 2.61g/12mm). 500-450 BC (Seaby 3822). Obv: Male figure kneeling right holding knife and tuna fish. Rev: Quadripartite incuse. Almost Extremely Fine. Nice specimen, rare like this. When the Peloponnesian War was coming to an end and the importance of the then preponderant Athens and Miletus was declining, Cyzicus emerged with force. The rapid acquisition of a predominant position, from the commercial point of view, in this city meant that its currency, especially gold, was considered one of the most important and basic of all antiquity. In addition to the cyzicenus, a gold coin worth 28 drachmas, we find the hekté coin in electron equivalent to one sixth of a stater
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Lot 25