cn coin 38798

Connected to Type

CN Type 11269 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 550-475 BC
Archaic/Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena left wearing Attic helmet with panache. Underneath, a tunny left.

Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.

Metrology

Denomination

hekta 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

10.7 mm

Weight

2.64 g

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: McClean11_2,64

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIa

Citation

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins. 3: Asia Minor, farther Asia, Egypt, Africa, Cambridge 1929 p. 44, nr. 7558, pl. 259, pic. 13  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 6, nr. 67  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 17, nr. 21  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 6, nr. 67, pl. 2, pic. 20 (Group IIa; Stater illustrated)   ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 60, nr. 25  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 6, nr. 67, pl. 2, pic. 20 (Group IIa; Stater illustrated)   ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 20, nr. 20, pl. IV, pic. 3  ❐

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