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1/6 stater of Kyzikos with infant Herakles strangling serpents above tunny fish
Greek
Classical Period
460–400 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 12 mm. Weight: 2.64 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1325
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1517.
DescriptionObverse: Nude baby Herakles crouching full front head to right strangling serpent with both hands.
Tunny fish to right below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
Tunny fish to right below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
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. 1476); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren