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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with Herakles above tunny fish

Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–460 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 13 mm. Weight: 2.62 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1328
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1482.
DescriptionObverse: Nude youthful Herakles kneeling on right knee to right, club in lowered right hand, bow in extended left hand.
Tunny fish to right below.
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. 1479); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren