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Stater of Kyzikos with head of Amazon and tunny fish
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–460 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 22 mm. Weight: 16.07 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1338
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1449.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Amazon to left in cap with raised curled wings, the hair behind in beaded lines.
Behind the head, a tunny fish diagonally, head down.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
Behind the head, a tunny fish diagonally, head down.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Whittall Collection; 1884: Sotheby Sale (Whittall Collection), no. 753 (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.1490); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren