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Stater of Kyzikos with lion attacking stag above tunny fish
Greek
Classical Period
about 420 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 20 mm. Weight: 15.94 gm.
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number59.485
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek Coins, 1950-1963 (MFA), no. 152.
DescriptionObverse: Lion to left, attacking a kneeling stag to left.
Below, a tunny also to left.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, granulated.
Below, a tunny also to left.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, granulated.
ProvenanceThis coin seems to have been in E. P. Warren's collection (loaned by him to MFA in 1925 as 594.25, sent to the Metropolitan Museum in 1931 and not acquired by that institution); by 1959: with Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Malzgasse 25, Basel, Switzerland (Münzen und Medaillen A.G. auction 19, June 5-6, 1959, lot 471); purchased at the Münzen und Medaiien auction on behalf of MFA by Leu & Company, Bahnhofstrasse 32, Zurich, Switzerland; purchased by MFA from Leu & Company, September 17, 1959, for $ 5,457.85 (this is the total price for 59.483-59.489)