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Stater of Kyzikos with youth on dolphin and tunny fish
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
500–460 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Kyzikos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 19 mm. Weight: 15.89 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1281
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1486.
DescriptionObverse: Nude youth riding astride dolphin to left, holding a tunny fish by the tail in raised right hand and extending left hand behind.
Tunny fish to left below.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type, surface granulated.
Tunny fish to left below.
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. 1430); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren