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Lesbos, Koinon BI 1/48 Stater (5.5mm, 0.26g), c. 525-513 BCE.
Obv: Two eyes (or possibly two grains or shields?).
Rev: Quadratum incusum.
Ref: Waggoner-Rosen 548 (this coin illustrated).
Prov:
Ex Jonathan P. Rosen (1944-) Collection (NFA Winter 1987 MBS [18 Dec 1987], 579 (part, not ill.), desc. by Lorber as “Probably a small hoard”);
Ex William B. Porter (1942-) Collection (CNG EA 494 [23 Jun 2021], 196).
Institution Hist.: J. Paul Getty Museum, housed c. 1983-1987, among 773 coins cataloged by Waggoner, 100 exhibited and 50 cataloged in Archaic Coins: An Exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum from the Collection of Jonathan Rosen (1983, Malibu: Getty).
Below: Nancy Waggoner (1983, ACNAC 5), Early Greek Coins from the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. (NY: ANS) [my copy signed by Rosen & inscribed to Torkhom Demirjian]
