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1/12 stater of Kyzikos with lion (?) above tunny fish

Greek
Archaic Period
550–500 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 8 mm. Weight: 1.28 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1376
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1444.
DescriptionObverse: Lion with large mane standing to left, tail up, head turned to show the top, and forepaws as if holding prey.
Tunny fish to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type.
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 this as Greenwell.