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Trihemiobol of Lampsakos with janiform female head

Greek
Classical or Early Hellenistic Period
400–300 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Lampsakos

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Diameter: 11 mm. Weight: 1.26 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.956
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1604.
DescriptionObverse: Double female head with stephane and earring; hair represented by dots.
Reverse: Head of Athena to right in Corinthian helmet, hair loose below.
Inscription in Greek above and at right.
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

Regling did not list as Greenwell.