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1/24 stater of Klazomenai (?) with head of ram

Greek
Late Orientalizing or Archaic Period
6th century B.C.
Mint: Ionia, Klazomenai (?)

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 8 mm. Weight: 0.62 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1557
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1755.
DescriptionObverse: Head of ram to right.
Reverse: Irregular incuse, knob in center.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Whittall Collection; 1858: Sotheby Sale (Whittall Collection), no. 399 (according to Regling and Brett); by date unknown: Babington Collection; 1891: Sotheby Sale (Babington Collection), no. 215 (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. 1729); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren