Advanced Search 
View: Obverse
Stater of Miletos with lion
Greek
Archaic Period
about 560–545 B.C.
Mint: Ionia, Miletos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 20 mm. Weight: 13.78 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1287
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1882.
DescriptionObverse: Lion lying to left, head to right, mouth open.
Plain rectangular border.
Reverse: Three incuse rectangles, in upper one five points arranged as a rosette, in center one a fox crouching to left before bush (?), in lower one bull's head facing up.
Plain rectangular border.
Reverse: Three incuse rectangles, in upper one five points arranged as a rosette, in center one a fox crouching to left before bush (?), in lower one bull's head facing up.
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. 1710); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren