cn coin 39922

Connected to Type

CN Type 12469 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 600-550 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Harpy with four wings bent at the tip flying left, in the raised right holding a tunny by the tail; below, tunny left.

Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square; the area of the partial squares is different in height, the treatment rough.

Metrology

Denomination

hekta 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

11 mm

Weight

2.64 g

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: Milne 159, 2.64

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group I

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 3, nr. 23, pl. 1, pic. 24 (Group I)   ❐

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cn coin 39922, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39922 [Last downloaded: 2023/09/24]

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