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Stater of Kyrene with quadriga, struck under Polianthes
Greek
Early Hellenistic period
about 322-313 B.C.
Mint: Kyrenaica, Kyrene
Medium/Technique
Gold
Dimensions
Diameter: 20 mm. Weight: 8.60 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1210
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1324.
DescriptionObverse: Nike, reins in both hands and goad in right hand, head facing, driving quadriga to right on line.
Inscription in Greek at left and above; eight rayed star above at right.
Reverse: Zeus Ammon laureate (?) standing nearly full front, head to left, with left hand raised on sceptre and phiale in extended right hand; he wears a loosely draped himation. At right inscription in Greek; at left thymiaterion.
Beaded border.
Inscription in Greek at left and above; eight rayed star above at right.
Reverse: Zeus Ammon laureate (?) standing nearly full front, head to left, with left hand raised on sceptre and phiale in extended right hand; he wears a loosely draped himation. At right inscription in Greek; at left thymiaterion.
Beaded border.
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. 1347); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren