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cn coin 17973

Connected to Type

CN Type 11415 🔍

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
wreath (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
15.09 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18231394

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Imhoof-Blumer

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Berlin_J

Literature

Ashton et al., The Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9.421), 2002 p. 167, nr. 16–18, pl. 22, pic. 16–18 ❐

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 42, nr. 23, pl. 5, pic. 26-34 (Group III)  ❐

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cn coin 17973, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_17973 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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