cn coin 33240

Connected to Type

CN Type 12448 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 410-330 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Heracles and Iphicles kneeling, facing away from each other as nude young men. In the raised right and the lowered left hands Heracles chokes a snake, while Iphicles raises his hands pleadingly. Below, 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

10 mm

Weight

2.61 g

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 18270212
Provenience: Imhoof-Blumer 1900

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group IV

Citation

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 83, nr. 63  ❐

Literature

Prokesch-Osten, Inedita meiner Sammlung autonomer altgriechischer Muenzen phil. hist. Kl. 5, 1854 p. 49, pl. 4, pic. 2  ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 83, nr. 63, pl. 1, pic. 20  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 15, nr. 208, pl. 6, pic. 20 (Group IV; Stater illustrated)   ❐

Sestini, Descrizione degli stateri antichi illustrati con le medaglie, Firenze 1817 p. 65, nr. 15  ❐

Waddington, Monnaies des Rois du Pont, 1863 p. 234–235  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 36, nr. 165  ❐

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