619. MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18.5mm, 15.92 g). Hoplite, nude but for crested helmet, kneeling right, bow hanging from arm, testing arrow; to left, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 117; Greenwell 93; Boston MFA 1490 = Warren 1511; SNG BN 263–4; BMC 79–80; Gulbenkian –; Jameson –. Lightly toned, minor edge split, tiny flan flaws. Good VF. Rare. ($10,000) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Nomos 13 (7 October 2016), lot 206; Nomos 9 (20 October 2014), lot 143.
620. MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.10 g). Forepart of man-headed bull right; to left, tunny upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 174; Greenwell 51; Boston MFA 1491 = Warren 1468; SNG BN 320; BMC 82; Gillet 1066; Gulbenkian –; Jameson 2202; Myrmekion 88. Lightly toned, a few minor marks. VF. Well centered and struck. Rare. ($7500) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 207 (15 October 2012), lot 266. This type ostensibly represents a river-god, possibly that of the river Aisepos.
The Hoplitodromos
621. MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 450-330 BC. EL Stater (18mm, 16.01 g). Hoplite, nude but for Corinthian helmet, shield on left arm, right arm extended forward, standing in a semi-crouched stance right on ground line; to right, tunny downward / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 119; Greenwell 91; Boston MFA 1497; SNG BN 265 = de Luynes 2452; BMC 78; Gulbenkian 620; Jameson 1404. Toned, minor edge split, tiny flan flaws. VF. ($3000) From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Roma XIV (21 September 2017), lot 219. The hoplite is about to begin the foot race in which the runners carried their military equipment (see A. Milavic, “Hoplitodromos: The hoplite race in armor served as a vehicle to train for war” in The Celator 5.8 [August 1991]). Agnes Baldwin Brett, in BMFA, suggests that type here could be a “copy of Kritios’ statue erected on the Akropolis at Athens, representing Epicharinos, Athenian hoplite runner victorious in Olympic games.”
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