1/12 stater of Kyzikos wtih tunny fish

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1/12 stater of Kyzikos wtih tunny fish

Greek

Archaic Period

Before 550 B.C.

Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos

Medium/Technique Electrum

Dimensions Diameter: 8 mm. Weight: 1.31 gm.

Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund

Accession Number04.1429

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome

ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1404.

DescriptionObverse: Tunny fish to right; fish tail above and head below.
Reverse: Irregular quadripartite incuse square.

ProvenanceBy date unknown: Montagu Collection: 1896: Sotheby Sale (Montagu Collection), no. 509 (according to Regling and Brett); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 1585); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren