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1/6 stater of Mytilene with head of younger Kabeiros

Greek
Classical Period
400–350 B.C.
Mint: Lesbos, Mytilene

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.51 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1481
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1735.
DescriptionObverse: Head of youthful Kabeiros to right.
Above left and right, star.
Reverse: Female head to right with earring, the hair in a roll.
Plain square border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Bompois Collection; 1882: Bompois Sale (Paris), no. 1480 (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. 1646); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren