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cn coin 21804

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CN Type 19455 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 600-550 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Tuna to the right, above close to the tail a lotus flower, below tuna head with spine to the right.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square; the area of the partial squares is different in height, the treatment rough.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
10.2 mm
Weight
2.68 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 41766400

Provenience: Fonds général.354

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group I

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 170, pl. 11, pic. 170  ❐

Literature

Mani Hurter and Liewald, Die frühesten Typen der Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Thunfische, Thunfischköpfe und -hinterhälften, Bern 2006 nr. 29.1 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 3, nr. 13, pl. 1, pic. 13 (Group I)  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 170, pl. 11, pic. 170 ❐

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cn coin 21804, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21804 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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