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Stater of Kyzikos with head of lion above tunny fish
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–460 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 19 mm. Weight: 16.09 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1380
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1473.
DescriptionObverse: Head and forepaws of lion full front.
Tunny fish below to left.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type.
Tunny fish below to left.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, millsail type.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Whittall Collection; 1884: Sotheby Sale (Whittall Collection), no. 1044 (according to Regling and Brett); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 1536); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren