cn coin 39691

Connected to Type

CN Type 11437 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 550-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Nude male youth riding a dolphin left, holding a tunny in his outstretched right hand. Below, a tunny left.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

15.6 mm

Weight

15.88 g

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1845,0109.37

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: London 29,76

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIc

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 29, nr. 76, pl. VII, pic. 4  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 49, nr. 9, pl. 1, pic. 9  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 9, nr. 110, pl. 3, pic. 29 (Group IIc)   ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 251, pl. 13, pic. 251  ❐

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