★ The Argo, Ship of Jason and the Argonauts ★

Mysia, Kyzikos EL Hemihekte - 1/12 Stater. Circa 500-450 BC. Forepart of ornate galley (the Argo) with wolf's head prow left, beneath, tunny fish left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 80; Hurter-Liewald, p. 33, 80, pl. 6 (staters). 1.31g, 8mm.

Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare.

From the Kleines Meisterwerk Collection.

Greenwell suggested that the galley prow depicted here is possibly intended to represent the Argo, the ship of the hero Jason, which carried him and the other Argonauts on their legendary quest to Kolchis to claim the Golden Fleece and which was according to myth the first ship to sail on the ocean.