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Stater of Kyzikos with head of Athena above tunny fish
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–460 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 20 mm. Weight: 16.08 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1292
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1446.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Athena to left in crested helmet with cheekpieces lowered; dotted hair turned up on neck.
Below, tunny to left.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse.
Below, tunny to left.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Bompois Collection; 1882: Bompois sale (Paris), no. 1369 (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. 1443); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren