GREEK COINS ITALY IONIA PHOCAEA Stater, electrum, about 580 B.C. EL 16.50 g. Head of a griffin r., tongue protruding from open jaws, knob on forehead. Rev. Four-part incuse square. Bodenstedt, 104, Em 1. Cf. TRITON, New York sale VI (2003), 360 (this obv. die). Of the greatest rarity, probably the 3rd specimen known. A highly important masterpiece of early Greek coinage. High relief. Good very fine Before the appearence of the stater in TRITON, the only known specimen of this issue was the one published first by E. S. G. Robinson, ANS-Centennial Publication (1958), 589, 7 and pl. 39, and owned by such famous collectors as Wéfer (Paris), Ch. Gillet (cf. catalog Kunstfreund / Bank Leu AG, Zurich - Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel sale Mai 28 [1974], 2), S. Weintraub and N. Bunker Hunt (cf. Sotheby's, New York - The Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection I, sale June 19 [1990], 55). We owe the attribution to the mint of Phokaia to Robinson, followed by Bodenstedt. For the iconographical and stylistic appreciation of the issue, cf. Kunstfreund p. 9 and Sotheby’s, Hunt I, no. 55.
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