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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with head of Silenos and tunny fish

Greek
Archaic Period
550–500 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.66 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1314
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1424.
DescriptionObverse: Satyr face (no neck) full front with horse's ears, hair and beard in beaded lines, tongue protruding.
On both sides of the face a tunny fish tail down.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 1465); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren