Lot 3334

Description

Mysia, Lampsakos, (c.5th century B.C.), electrum stater, (15.204 grams), obv. forepart of winged horse to left bridled with round wings, vine branch to left and above, rev. quadripartite incuse square with alternatively raised and sunken squares, (cf.S.3881 [£2500 commoner variety], Boston 1582 [p.206, Pl.77 similar dies], cf.ACNAC Rosen 523, cf.SNG von Aulock 1289, Bab. I, 323 var., Baldwin Period I, [AJN 1914, p.7, Pl.I, 9] No.11, cf.BMC 7, Weber 5105). Good very fine and very rare.

Agnes Baldwin does not list these dies but notes the existence of 13 examples of Period I and 40 examples of Period II.