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Stater of Kyzikos with head of Aphrodite above tunny fish
Greek
Classical Period
about 400–330 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 15.88 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1300
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1553.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Aphrodite to left with high stephane, leaf over forehead, hair in roll, and earring.
Tunny fish to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, granulated.
Tunny fish to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, granulated.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; 1902: purchased from Canon Greenwell by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 1451); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren