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Stater of Kyzikos with horseman behind horse above tunny fish
Greek
Classical Period
400–330 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 20 mm. Weight: 16.04 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1361
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1556.
DescriptionObverse: Horse walking to right; behind it a bearded man to right, head bowed, holding the reins in right hand and touching with right foot the left fore-foot of horse; he wears a chlamys.
Tunny fish to right below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
Tunny fish to right below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, September, 1904
Regling did not list as Greenwell.
Regling did not list as Greenwell.