Stater (Coin) Depicting a Crouching Dog

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

5th century BCE

Greek; Kyzikos, Mysia (now Turkey)

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.

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Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Stater (Coin) Depicting a Crouching Dog
Place: Mysia (Minted in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 500 BCE–401 BCE
Medium: Electrum
Dimensions: Diam.: 1.9 cm (3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
Reference Number: 1922.4931
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Louise Berge and Karen Alexander, “Ancient Gold Work and Jewelry from Chicago Collections,” The Ancient World vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2 (1985), p. 22.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 29.
Elizabeth Benge,“Portraits of Change: Ancient Coins,” Art Institute of Chicago ARTicle, February 26, 2021.

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.

Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

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