November 20-21, 1981, anonymous sale (Auction 11), Frank Sternberg AG, Zürich, lot 268, sold to Cornelius C. Vermeule, III (b. 1925 – d. 2008), Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 2008, gift of Vermeule to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 22, 2008)

NOTES: [1] Lent by Cornelius Vermeule to the MFA from 2004 until 2008 (loan no. L-G 115.2.2004).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The date and circumstances of the coin’s discovery are not known. The coin’s appearance in a 1981 auction in Switzerland ensures that it has been outside Turkey, its probable country of modern discovery, since before the passage of Law no. 2863 on the Protection of Cultural and National Assets (1983).