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1/12 stater of Kyzikos with kneeling man holding tunny fish
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–460 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 9 mm. Weight: 1.31 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1351
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1489.
DescriptionObverse: Nude bearded man kneeling on left knee to left, left forearm raised, a tunny fish held up by the tail in right hand.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
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
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.