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1/6 stater of Mytilene with female head
Greek
Classical Period
400–350 B.C.
Mint: Lesbos, Mytilene
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 10 mm. Weight: 2.53 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1471
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1716.
DescriptionObverse: Female head to right with bead necklace earring, fillet about the hair holding a leaf in front. Hair in roll.
Reverse: Head of youthful Dionysos to right with ivy crown.
Plain square border.
Reverse: Head of youthful Dionysos to right with ivy crown.
Plain square border.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.
Not listed as Greenwell by Regling.