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cn coin 21801

Connected to Type
CN Type 11687 🔍
Mint
Kyzikos 🔍
Region: Mysia
Date
c. 575-500 BC
Archaic Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Tunny head with spine right, below a tunny right.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square; the area of the partial squares is different in height, the treatment rough.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemihekte 🔍
Material
electrum  🔍
Diameter
8.4 mm
Weight
1.33 g
Owner
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  
Owner Inventory No.: 41766397
Provenience: Fonds général.357
Public Commentary
H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe I
Citation
Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 167, pl. 11, pic. 167 
Literature
Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 3, nr. 7, pl. 1, pic. 6 (Group I)   
Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 166-167, pl. 11, pic. 166-167  
Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 70, nr. 4964, pl. 181, pic. 4964  
Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 123, nr. 165  
Mani Hurter and Liewald, Die frühesten Typen der Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Thunfische, Thunfischköpfe und -hinterhälften, Bern 2006 p. 10, nr. 7.2  
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cn coin 21801, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21801 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/16]
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