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Stater of Kelenderis with youth riding horse
Greek
Classical Period
450–400 B.C.
Mint: Cilicia, Kelenderis
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 9.90 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1135
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 2116.
DescriptionObverse: Nude youthful horseman seated sideways on horse galloping right, about to leap off. He holds a whip in his right hand and reins in his left.
Dotted ground line under horse's hindlegs.
Reverse: Goat to right sinking down upon right knee, his head to left.
Inscription in Greek above.
Dotted ground line.
Dotted ground line under horse's hindlegs.
Reverse: Goat to right sinking down upon right knee, his head to left.
Inscription in Greek above.
Dotted ground line.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Subhi Collection; 1878: Sotheby Sale of Subhi Pacha Collection, no. 267 (according to Regling and Brett); 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. 1253); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren