Advanced Search 
View: Obverse
Stater of Lyttos with bust of Zeus
Greek
Hellenistic Period
about 200 B.C.
Mint: Crete, Lyttos
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 31 mm. Weight: 16.14 gm. Die Axis: 12
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number62.579
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek Coins, 1950-1963 (MFA), no. 122.
DescriptionObverse: Laureate bust of Zeus to right.
Border of dots.
Reverse: Eagle standing to right, with wings half spread, rudder and galley(?) beneath feet.
Inscription in Greek at right.
Border of dots.
Reverse: Eagle standing to right, with wings half spread, rudder and galley(?) beneath feet.
Inscription in Greek at right.
ProvenanceFrom a hoard discovered at Limani-Chersonisou, Crete, in 1942. By 1962: with Euripides Sepheriades, Geneva, Switzerland; June 6, 1962: purchased by MFA from Euripides Sepheriades for $ 250.00