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1/6 stater of Phokaia with three seals

Greek
Archaic Period
Before 500 B.C.
Mint: Ionia, Phokaia

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 10 mm. Weight: 2.57 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1499
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1895.
DescriptionObverse: Three seals in a circle, over each a dot, about a central dot.
Beaded border.
Reverse: Irregular square incuse.
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. 1666); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren