cn coin 21871

Connected to Type

CN Type 19447 🔍

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍

Region: Mysia

Date

c. 600-550 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Harpy with four bent wings (two each visible above and below) flying left, holding a tunny by the tail in the raised right hand, the left hand extended with open palm.
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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

8.6 mm

Weight

2.61 g

Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766467

Provenience: Fonds général.434; Waddington 1420

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. 204, pl. 12, pic. 204 ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 3, nr. 24, pl. 1, pic. 25 (Group I) ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 204, pl. 12, pic. 204 ❐

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