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Obverse: Zeus kneeling to right on tunny fish to right; a mantle is about his knees, his right hand is on an erect sceptre and an eagle is flying from his extended left hand. Tunny fish to right below. Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square, mill-sail type.
Provenance
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. 1422); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Greek, Classical Period, 460–400 B.C.
Mint
Kyzikos, Mysia
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1530.
Dimensions
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 15.89 gm.
Accession Number
04.1273
Medium or Technique
Electrum