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Stater of Elis with eagle and serpent
Greek
Classical Period
480–440 B.C.
Mint: Elis (Peloponnesos)
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 25 mm. Weight: 11.80 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.880
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1198.
DescriptionObverse: Eagle flying to left, both wings raised, attacking with beak the serpent in its claws (same as 04.879) Small six leaf rosette stamped below.
Reverse: In incuse, thunderbolt with volutes and high spread wings.
Inscription left and right..
Square beaded border.
Reverse: In incuse, thunderbolt with volutes and high spread wings.
Inscription left and right..
Square beaded border.
Provenance1859, found in the “Elis Hoard of 1859” [see note 1]. About 1859, Charles Louis William Merlin (b. 1821 – d. 1896), Athens; November 11, 1861, C.L.W. Merlin sale, Sotheby’s, London, lot 84 [see note 2]. By 1889, William Yorke Moore (b. 1806 – d. 1889); March 2, 1889, Major-Gen. W. Yorke Moore sale, Sotheby, London, lot 297. Before 1902, William Greenwell (b. 1820 – d. 1918), Durham; July 1902, sold by William Greenwell to Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 – d. 1928), London; 1904, sold by Edward Perry Warren to the MFA. (Accession date: September 1, 1904)
Note:
[1] Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards, no. 44; Sydney P. Noe, A Bibliography of Greek Coin Hoards (1925), no. 753; Jennifer A.W. Warren, The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, vol. 2 (1962), pp. 413-415.
[2] Many thanks to Dr John Voukelatos for sharing the hoard and Merlin provenance information.
Note:
[1] Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards, no. 44; Sydney P. Noe, A Bibliography of Greek Coin Hoards (1925), no. 753; Jennifer A.W. Warren, The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, vol. 2 (1962), pp. 413-415.
[2] Many thanks to Dr John Voukelatos for sharing the hoard and Merlin provenance information.