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cn coin 21821

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CN Type 11272 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Lion with ruffled mane, head down, standing left atop a tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
11.9 mm
Weight
2.69 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766417

Provenience: Fonds général.375

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 213, pl. 12, pic. 213  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 83 (Group IIb; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 104, nr. 107 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 83 (Group IIb/c; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 30 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 212-214, pl. 12, pic. 212-214 ❐

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cn coin 21821, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21821 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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