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1/12 stater of Kyzikos with Chimaera crouching on tunny fish
Greek
Archaic Period
about 550–500 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 1.37 gm.
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number57.726
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek Coins, 1950-1963 (MFA), no. 147.
DescriptionObverse: Chimaera crouching to left, on a tunny also facing to left.
Reverse: Quadripartite mill-sail incuse.
Reverse: Quadripartite mill-sail incuse.
ProvenanceBy 1957: with A. H. Baldwin & Sons, 3 Robert Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2; purchased by MFA for £ 62/10 from A. H. Baldwin & Sons, December 12, 1957