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Stater of Lampsakos with winged horse
Greek
Classical Period
450 B.C.
Mint: Mysia, Lampsakos
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 15.31 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.1435
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1585.
DescriptionObverse: Forepart of horse to left with flying mane and two curled wings.
Below, monogram. Above, monogram?
Around: grape vine border.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square; two of the holes deeper than the other two.
(Note that the Brett catalogue entry mentions only the monogram below the horse but two monograms appear in the Regling catalogue entry.)
Below, monogram. Above, monogram?
Around: grape vine border.
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square; two of the holes deeper than the other two.
(Note that the Brett catalogue entry mentions only the monogram below the horse but two monograms appear in the Regling catalogue entry.)
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. 1592); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren