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1/12 stater of Asia Minor with janiform head
Greek
Late Orientalizing or Archaic Period
Late 7th–6th century B.C.
Mint: Asia Minor, Uncertain
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 10 mm. Weight: 1.24 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1574
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1799.
DescriptionObverse: Double head without neck; at left nymph with earring, at right satyr with pointed beard and goat's ears.
Reverse: Incuse square, surface irregular.
Reverse: Incuse square, surface irregular.
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. 1746); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren