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1/3 stater of Sybaris with bull
Greek
Archaic Period
about 540–519 B.C.
Mint: Lucania, Sybaris
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 18 mm. Weight: 2.53 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.357
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0128.
DescriptionObverse: Bull standing left, head right.
Dotted ground line between two plain lines.
Inscription in Greek below.
Variant of cable border.
Reverse: Bull standing right, head left, incuse.
Striated incuse ground line and border.
Dotted ground line between two plain lines.
Inscription in Greek below.
Variant of cable border.
Reverse: Bull standing right, head left, incuse.
Striated incuse ground line and border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Moore Collection; 1889: Cat. Sotheby, Moore, lot 56 (according to Brett catalogue); 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. 97); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren