Steel grey tone with an iridescent lustre
Deeply toned about extremely fine
with some residual toning
issued under Archbishop Warham
Mysia, Kyzikos (c.550-450 BC), Electrum Hekte, Harpy Type Steel grey tone with anMysia, Kyzikos (c. 550 450 B. C.), Electrum Hekte. Harpy, with a human head and the body of a bird, standing left on a dotted ground line, holding a tunny by its tail in her right hand, her left hand extended to support it, rev. quadripartite incuse square, 2. 64g. (Von Fritze I, 74; Greenwell 97; SNG von Aulock 7278 9; Rosen 452). A superb representation of a mythological Harpy, in fine archaic style, well centred and struck, toned, extremely fine.