cn coin 21821

Connected to Type

CN Type 11272 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 550-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Lion with ruffled mane, head down, standing left atop a tunny left.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology

Denomination

hekte 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

11.9 mm

Weight

2.69 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 41766417
Provenience: Fonds général.375

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 213, pl. 12, pic. 213  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 83 (Group IIb; Stater illustrated)   ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 104, nr. 107  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 83 (Group IIb/c; Stater illustrated)   ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 30  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 212-214, pl. 12, pic. 212-214  ❐

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