1/6 stater of Mytilene with head of Persephone

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1/6 stater of Mytilene with head of Persephone

Greek

Classical Period

400–350 B.C.

Mint: Lesbos, Mytilene

Medium/Technique Electrum

Dimensions Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.49 gm.

Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund

Accession Number04.1462

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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome

ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1722.

DescriptionObverse: Head of Persephone to right with earring and wreath of grain; hair in roll.
Reverse: Bull charging to left.
Plain square border.

ProvenanceBy date unknown: Ivanoff Collection; 1863: Sotheby Sale (Ivanoff Collection), no. 188 (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. 1626); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren