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Stater of Thourioi (Thurium) with head of Athena
Greek
Classical or Early Hellenistic Period
350–281 B.C.
Mint: Lucania, Thourioi (Thurium)
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 25 mm. Weight: 7.87 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.370
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0146.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Athena right in crested Athenian helmet; Skylla hurling stone with raised right, left outstretched; Athena with pointed earring and dotted necklace; hair below neckpiece in parallel curly locks.
Reverse: Bull butting right.
In exergue, magistrate's initials, between which, owl standing right, wings open.
Inscriptions in Greek above and in exergue.
Reverse: Bull butting right.
In exergue, magistrate's initials, between which, owl standing right, wings open.
Inscriptions in Greek above and in exergue.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection; by 1896: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London (auction of the Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London, June 16, 1896, lot 175); 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. 116); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren