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Stater of Kyzikos with Europa seated on bull above tunny fish

Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–460 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 19 mm. Weight: 16.13 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1277
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1477.
DescriptionObverse: Europa riding to left on bull, her right hand grasping its horns, her left hand on its back.
Tunny below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, surface granulated.
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. 1426); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren