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Stater of Paros with kneeling goat
Greek
Archaic Period
about 530–520/515 B.C
Mint: Paros (Aegean Islands)
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 20 mm. Weight: 12.27 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.921
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1291.
DescriptionObverse: Goat kneeling on right knee to right, head to left.
Dolphin to right below.
Reverse: Incuse square divided into six parts.
Dolphin to right below.
Reverse: Incuse square divided into six parts.
ProvenanceFrom a hoard found in the Cyclades (?) in 1889 (?) that included MFA 04.844, 04.918, 04.921, 04.922; 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. 968); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren