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1/24 stater of Asia Minor with mill-sail design

Greek
Late Orientalizing or Archaic Period
Late 7th–6th century B.C.
Mint: Asia Minor, Uncertain

Medium/Technique Electrum
Dimensions Diameter: 7 mm. Weight: 0.64 gm.
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1592
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ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1782.
DescriptionObverse: Windmill-sail incuse design rendered in relief.
Reverse: Square incuse of windmill-sail design.
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. 1764); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren