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Didrachm of Karthaia with head of Aristaios

Greek
Hellenistic Period
300 B.C. or later
Mint: Keos (Aegean Islands), Karthaia

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Diameter: 23 mm. Weight: 7.64 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.915
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1288.
DescriptionObverse: Bearded head of Aristaios, laureate to right, hair in roll.
Reverse: Forepart of dog crouching to right, rays spring from his head (dog star?).
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.