Diobol of Mytilene (?) with head of youth

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Diobol of Mytilene (?) with head of youth

Greek

Classical Period

440–420 B.C.

Mint: Lesbos, Mytilene (?)

Medium/Technique Billon

Dimensions Diameter: 7 mm. Weight: 0.67 gm.

Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund

Accession Number04.994

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome

ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1656.

DescriptionObverse: Head of youth to left, taenia in hair.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.

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. 1067); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren