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1/6 stater of Asia Minor with forepart of horse

Greek
Late Orientalizing or Archaic Period
about 600–550 B.C.
Mint: Asia Minor, Uncertain

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.40 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1583
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1772.
DescriptionObverse: Forepart of horse, jumping to left.
Reverse: Irregular quadripartite incuse square.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 1755); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren