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1/12 stater of Asia Minor with reclining dog
Greek
Late Orientalizing or Archaic Period
Late 7th–6th century B.C.
Mint: Asia Minor, Uncertain
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 9 mm. Weight: 1.35 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1582
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1798.
DescriptionObverse: Dog, curled in circular form.
Reverse: Irregular incuse square.
Reverse: Irregular incuse square.
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. 1754); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren