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1/6 stater of Mytilene with female head
Greek
Classical Period
480–430 B.C.
Mint: Lesbos, Mytilene
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 10 mm. Weight: 2.53 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1458
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1688.
DescriptionObverse: Female head to right with sphendone.
Reverse: In incuse square two bearded herms facing, the right one ithyphallic, the hair of left one in a knot.
Plain square border.
Reverse: In incuse square two bearded herms facing, the right one ithyphallic, the hair of left one in a knot.
Plain square border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Carfrae Collection; 1894: Sotheby Sale (Carfrae Collection), no. 223 (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. 1622); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren