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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with seated Dionysos above tunny fish
Greek
Classical Period
400–330 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.55 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1307
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1542.
DescriptionObverse: Youthful Dionysos seated left, supporting himself on his left elbow, and holding out some object in right hand. About his knees is a mantle.
Tunny fish to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, granulated.
Tunny fish to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, granulated.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, September, 1904
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.