Title

Stater Coin

Description

Obv: Crowned Egyptian sphinx with pschent headdress.
Rev: floral design (double lotus or "thunderbolt") within dotted circle, all in incuse square.

Date Issued

450–410 B.C.E

Format

Weight: 9.45 g.
Diameter: 21.5 mm.

Medium

Silver

Creator

Byblos (modern Jbeil, Lebanon)

Publisher

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.

Identifier

55.88

Source

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/3261/stater-of-byblos--with-sphinx?ctx=6bfecab5-aa43-44a0-b520-cde744a9e781&idx=0

Provenance

By date unknown: with Jacob Hirsch, New York, N.Y.; March 10, 1955: purchased by MFA from Jacob Hirsch for $ 750.00.

Contributor

Michael Anthony Ross