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Stater or nomos of Kaulonia with Apollo
Greek
Archaic Period
about 525–500 B.C.
Mint: Bruttium, Kaulonia
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 30 mm. Weight: 8.26 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.384
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0169.
DescriptionObverse: Apollo advancing right; nude, upper body facing; hair long, dotted, with taenia; in raised right hand, stalk with pinnate leaves, downwards; on outstretched left arm, palm facing, nude male figure, running right, head left, holding branch in lowered drawn-back right hand; with short chlamys and winged feet.
At right: stag standing right, head left, on short dotted line; dotted ground line below Apollo.
Inscription in Greek.
Cable border.
Reverse: Same type as obverse but incuse, to left; without inscription, running figure, or stag's horns; pinnate branch in relief; ground line plain.
Border of incuse oblongs.
At right: stag standing right, head left, on short dotted line; dotted ground line below Apollo.
Inscription in Greek.
Cable border.
Reverse: Same type as obverse but incuse, to left; without inscription, running figure, or stag's horns; pinnate branch in relief; ground line plain.
Border of incuse oblongs.
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. 135); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren