cn coin 38876

Connected to Type

CN Type 11270 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 550-475 BC
Archaic/Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Siren with upright wings standing left on a ground line. In the raised right front paw she holds a tunny by the tail fin.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

hekte 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

12 mm

Weight

2.62 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  ❐
Provenience: Luynes

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: Luynes 2106, 2.61

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIa

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 203, pl. 12, pic. 203  ❐

Babelon, Catalogue de la collection De Luynes: monnayes grecques, Sala Bolognese 1977 nr. 2439  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 100, nr. 97, pl. 4, pic. 24  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 74, pl. 2, pic. 29 (Group IIa; Stater illustrated)   ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 26  ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 100, nr. 97, pl. 4, pic. 24  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 74, pl. 2, pic. 29 (Group IIa; Stater illustrated)   ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 26  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 203, pl. 12, pic. 203  ❐

Franke, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Heft 16: Sammlung v. Aulock. Nachträge II. Mysien 7191-7531, Troas 7532-7666, Aeolis 7667-7709, Lesbos 7710-7758, Berlin 1967 nr. 7278-7280  ❐

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