1/6 stater of Phokaia with head of Nike (?)

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1/6 stater of Phokaia with head of Nike (?)

Greek

Classical Period

400–330 B.C.

Mint: Ionia, Phokaia

Medium/Technique Electrum

Dimensions Diameter: 10 mm. Weight: 2.53 gm.

Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund

Accession Number04.1524

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome

ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1923.

DescriptionObverse: Female head to left with earrings; the hair in a high knot.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.

ProvenanceBy date unknown: Whittall Collection; 1884: Sotheby Sale (Whittall Collection), no. 990 (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. 1693); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren