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Stater of Kaulonia with Apollo
Greek
Late Archaic Period
500–480 B.C.
Mint: Bruttium, Kaulonia
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 8.07 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.388
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0175.
DescriptionObverse: Apollo advancing right; nude, upper body facing; hair rolled at back; in raised right hand, stalk with pinnate leaves, downwards; on outstretched left arm, palm facing, nude male running figure represented by few sketchy lines.
Inscription in Greek at left.
Cable border.
Reverse: Stag standing right.
Inscription in Greek above stag's back.
At right, sapling with branches; dotted ground line;
Border of dots; round incuse.
Inscription in Greek at left.
Cable border.
Reverse: Stag standing right.
Inscription in Greek above stag's back.
At right, sapling with branches; dotted ground line;
Border of dots; round incuse.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Robert Carfrae Collection, Edinburgh; by 1894: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Wellington Street, Strand, London (auction of the Robert Carfrae Collection, May 23-25, lot 25); 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. 142); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren