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A work made of electrum.

Stater (Coin) Depicting a Crouching Dog

5th century BCE

Greek; Kyzikos, Mysia (now Turkey)

Mysia

The front (obverse) of this coin depicts a dog with collar, crouching on forelegs to the left; below is a tunny fish, which was such an important product of the local economy that it appeared on all coinage of Kyzikos. The back (reverse) shows an incuse square quartered in a mill-sail pattern.

Electrum

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium