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1/6 stater of Mytilene with head of Apollo

Greek
Classical Period
430–400 B.C.
Mint: Lesbos, Mytilene

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.55 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1459
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1704.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Apollo to right, laureate.
Reverse: In incuse square griffin's head to right.
Beaded square border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Ivanoff Collection; 1863: Sotheby Sale (Ivanoff Collection), no. 185 (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. 1623); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren