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cn coin 39684

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
19 mm
Weight
16.02 g
Owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  
Owner Inventory No.: 04.1416
Provenience: Bompois Collection; 1882: Bompois Sale (Paris), no. 1365 (according to Regling and Brett); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from C. Greenwell Collection by E. P. Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Slg. Warren, no. 1572); Sept. 1904: purchased by MFA from E.P. Warren
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: Boston 1572
Public Commentary
H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb
Citation
Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 nr. 1572 
Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 nr. 1455 
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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