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Stater of Methymna with boar
Greek
Early Classical Period
about 480 B.C.
Mint: Lesbos, Methymna
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 8.19 gm. Die Axis: 6
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.995
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1658.
DescriptionObverse: Boar standing to right, head lowered, scratching muzzle with left foreleg, tail curled up; dotted ground line.
Inscription in Greek above.
Reverse: Head of Athena to right in crested helmet on which projecting spike and dotted scrolls; neckpiece with projection at back; hair dotted, long; disk earring; truncation dotted.
Dotted square border; square incuse (die break on right border).
Inscription in Greek above.
Reverse: Head of Athena to right in crested helmet on which projecting spike and dotted scrolls; neckpiece with projection at back; hair dotted, long; disk earring; truncation dotted.
Dotted square border; square incuse (die break on right border).
ProvenanceFrom the Lesbos Hoard (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. 1068); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren,