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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with kneeling warrior and tunny fish
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–460 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 12 mm. Weight: 2.62 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1359
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1485.
DescriptionObverse: Nude youth kneeling on right knee to left, holding an arrow in both hands as if to test it. A bow hangs from his right wrist and he wears a crested Corinthian helmet.
At right, tunny upwards.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
At right, tunny upwards.
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. 1513); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren