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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with heads of nymph and satyr above tunny fish

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

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.65 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1315
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1426.
DescriptionObverse: Double head; to left a nymph with taenia in hair, to right a satyr bearded, with goat's ear.
Tunny fish to right below.
Reverse: Irregular quadripartite incuse square.
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. 1466); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren