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cn coin 21827

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CN Type 11261 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Dog protome left with head turned back, its right foreleg raised. Next to it on the right side an upwards tunny.
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Countermark
Cross-shaped hallmark
Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
9.4 mm
Weight
2.65 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766423

Provenience: Fonds général.384; Waddington 685

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIa

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 189, pl. 12, pic. 189  ❐

Babelon, Inventaire sommaire de la Collection Waddington, Paris 1898 nr. 685  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 5, nr. 50, pl. 1, pic. 51 (Group IIa)  ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 116, nr. 139, pl. 5, pic. 36 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 5, nr. 50, pl. 1, pic. 51 (Group IIa; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 116, nr. 139, pl. 5, pic. 36 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 189, pl. 12, pic. 189 ❐

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cn coin 21827, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21827 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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