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Stater of Kyzikos with infant holding tunny fish
Greek
Classical Period
460–400 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 22 mm. Weight: 15.97 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1355
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1511.
DescriptionObverse: Nude boy sitting full front, head to right holding tunny fish by tail to right in right hand and leaning on left arm.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren
Not published as Greenwell by Regling.
Not published as Greenwell by Regling.