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Stater of Kyrene with quadriga, struck under Theupheides
Greek
Classical or Early Hellenistic Period
375–308 B.C.
Mint: Cyrenaica, Kyrene
Medium/Technique
Gold
Dimensions
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 8.62 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1211
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1323.
DescriptionObverse: Male charioteer, reins in both hands and goad in right hand, head facing, driving quadriga to right on line. An eight rayed star splits the inscription in Greek above the quadriga.
Plain border.
Reverse: Zeus Lykaios seated to left, left arm over back of throne, right hand raised on sceptre. About his knees is a himation, and the left foot is drawn back on a footstool.
Inscription in Greek at left; at right an eagle, head to right, on a scroll.
Plain border inside beaded border.
Plain border.
Reverse: Zeus Lykaios seated to left, left arm over back of throne, right hand raised on sceptre. About his knees is a himation, and the left foot is drawn back on a footstool.
Inscription in Greek at left; at right an eagle, head to right, on a scroll.
Plain border inside 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. 1348); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren