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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with winged creature and tunny fish
Greek
Archaic Period
Before 550 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.55 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1424
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1398.
DescriptionObverse: Winged creature (lion?) standing to right, the right forepaw on tail of diagonally placed tunny fish.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, granulated.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, granulated.
Provenance1894: Sotheby Sale (Well-known Collector), no. 247 (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. 1580); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren