Mysia, Kyzikos EL Hemihekte. Circa 450-400 BC. Head of Attis facing right, wearing ornamented Phrygian cap; [tunny fish to right below] / Quadripartite incuse square. Boston 1523; W. Greenwell, 'The Electrum Coinage of Kyzikos', NC 1887, 56, pl. III, 5; cf. Von Fritze 142 (stater and hekte); SNG France 291 (stater and hekte). 1.31g, 9mm. Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; one of probably fewer than ten known examples, and certainly one of the finest. From the A.F. Collection, Germany. Attis was of Phrygian origin and thus he is always represented in a Phrygian costume such as he wears here. He was the Phrygian god of vegetation and consort of the mother-goddess Cybele.
Mysia, Kyzikos EL Hemihekte. Circa 450-400 BC. Head of Attis facing right, wearing ornamented Phrygian cap; [tunny fish to right below] / Quadripartite incuse square. Boston 1523; W. Greenwell, 'The Electrum Coinage of Kyzikos', NC 1887, 56, pl. III, 5; cf. Von Fritze 142 (stater and hekte); SNG France 291 (stater and hekte). 1.31g, 9mm. Good Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; one of probably fewer than ten known examples, and certainly one of the finest. From the A.F. Collection, Germany. Attis was of Phrygian origin and thus he is always represented in a Phrygian costume such as he wears here. He was the Phrygian god of vegetation and consort of the mother-goddess Cybele.
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