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1/6 stater of Phokaia with female head
Greek
Classical Period
400–330 B.C.
Mint: Ionia, Phokaia
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.54 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1531
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1919.
DescriptionObverse: Female head to left with sphendone and earrings.
Seal diagonally to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.
Seal diagonally to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Whittall Collection; 1884: Sotheby Sale (Whittall Collection), no. 987 (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. 1701); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren