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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with tunny fish
Greek
Archaic Period
Before 550 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 10 mm. Weight: 2.70 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1428
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1403.
DescriptionObverse: Tunny fish to right; fish tail above and head below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type.
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. 1584); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren