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cn coin 39683

Connected to Type
CN Type 11256 🔍
Mint
Kyzikos 🔍
Region: Mysia
Date
c. 550-475 BC
Archaic/Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Winged griffin with an open beak and raised right forepaw standing left atop tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍
Material
electrum  🔍
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
15.89 g
Owner
British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  
Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p154A.1.Tei
Provenience: Richard Payne Knight
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: London 31,96
Public Commentary
H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb
Citation
Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 31, nr. 96, pl. VIII, pic. 3 
Knight, Nummi veteres civitatum, regum, gentium, et provinciarum, Londini in Museo, Londinum 1830 p. 154 
Literature
Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 8, nr. 99, pl. 3, pic. 19 (Group IIb/c)   
Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 117, nr. 143, pl. 6, pic. 5  
Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 239-240, pl. 13, pic. 239-240  
Bosch and Kraft, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Heft 4: Sammlung v. Aulock. Mysien, 1050-1438, Berlin 1957 nr. 1195, annot. Hekte  
Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 42, annot. Hekte  
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cn coin 39683, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39683 [Last downloaded: 2024/10/07]
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