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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with kneeling Orestes above tunny fish

Greek
Classical Period
460–400 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 13 mm. Weight: 2.69 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1337
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1533.
DescriptionObverse: Orestes unbearded kneeling on left knee to left, sword in right hand, left hand on omphalos with taeniae; he wears a chlamys.
Tunny fish to left 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; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, September, 1904

Regling did not list as Greenwell.