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cn coin 17256

Connected to Type

CN Type 11315 🔍

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
bucranium (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
15.15 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18200339

Provenience: Löbbecke 1906

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Loebb_48

Citation

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 42, pl. 5, pic. 30  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 42, nr. 23, pl. 5, pic. 30-31 (Group III)  ❐

Ashton et al., The Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9.421), 2002 p. 167, nr. 15, pl. 22, pic. 1 ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 36, nr. 124, pl. 9, pic. 8 ❐

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