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Stater of Kyzikos with Ge above tunny fish
Greek
Classical Period
460–400 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 19 mm. Weight: 15.95 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1284
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1534.
DescriptionObverse: Figure of Ge full front from hips up, rising from the earth, her head to left. She wears a girdled chiton, necklace, earring and wreath of grain leaves. In her lowered right hand are two bunches of grapes and one leaf.
Behind her, ears of corn; below, a tunny fish to left.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, surface granulated.
Behind her, ears of corn; below, a tunny fish to left.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, surface granulated.
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. 1434); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren