cn coin 54371

Connected to Type

CN Type 21558 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 390-341/340 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΣΩΤΕΙΡΑ

Design

Head of Kore Soteira left with her hair tied up in a shawl (sakkos), ears of grain, and an earring.
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Reverse

Legend

ΚΥ-エΙ

Design

Lion head left with wide open mouth and tongue hanging out. Below, a tunny left.
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Symbol

kantharos (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

23 mm

Weight

14.71 g

Axis

2

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: EH,p565.1.Cyz
Provenience: Hawkins 1837

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 36, nr. 126  (Control erroneously described as owl)  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 42, nr. 23 (Group III)   ❐

Ashton et al., The Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9.421), 2002 p. 167-171  ❐

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