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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with lioness above tunny fish
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–460 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 12 mm. Weight: 2.60 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1373
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1472.
DescriptionObverse: Lioness standing to left, tail and right forepaw raised.
Tunny fish to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type.
Tunny fish to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Whittall Collection; 1884: Sotheby Sale (Whittall Collection), no. 760 (according to Regling and Brett); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 1529); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren