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1/6 stater of Phokaia with female head

Greek
Classical Period
400–330 B.C.
Mint: Ionia, Phokaia

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 2.55 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1526
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1931.
DescriptionObverse: Female head to left, with earrings, hair in roll.
Seal to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Whittall Collection; 1884: Sotheby Sale (Whittall Collection), no. 986 (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. 1696); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren