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Stater of Kyzikos with warrior and tunny fish
Greek
Classical Period
460–400 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 16.01 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1357
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1490.
DescriptionObverse: Nude youth kneeling to right on right knee, holding an arrow in both hands as if to test it; he wears crested Corinthian helmet.
A tunny fish head down, behind him.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
A tunny fish head down, behind him.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type, granulated.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 1511); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren