cn coin 21915

Connected to Type

CN Type 11290 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 550-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Centaur left, head and upper body turned back and picking up a tree (spruce?) with roots as if to defend himself.

Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.

Metrology

Denomination

hekta 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

10.4 mm

Weight

2.63 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 41766511
Provenience: Fonds général.501

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIc

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 273, pl. 14, pic. 273 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 124, pl. 4, pic. 11 ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 71, nr. 46, pl. 2, pic. 24 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 124, pl. 4, pic. 11 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 273, pl. 14, pic. 273 ❐

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