cn coin 39201

Connected to Type

CN Type 11289 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 550-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Nude, bearded Silenus with long hair kneeling left. He holds a tunny by the tail fin in his raised right hand; the left hand is supported at his side.

Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.

Metrology

Denomination

hekta 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

12.5 mm

Weight

2.69 g

Owner

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

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. 270, pl. 14, pic. 270  ❐

Babelon, Catalogue de la collection De Luynes: monnayes grecques, Sala Bolognese 1977 nr. 2432  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 69, nr. 41  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 122, pl. 4, pic. 8 (Group IIc; Stater illustrated)   ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 22, nr. 63  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 270, pl. 14, pic. 270  ❐

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