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cn coin 21889

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CN Type 12150 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of a young man on discus left. Below, a tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
19.6 mm
Weight
15.71 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766485

Provenience: Fonds général.460

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ParisCXXVIII_15,72

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. 248, pl. 13, pic. 248  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 90, nr. 77 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 8, nr. 105, pl. 3, pic. 24 (Group IIb/c)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 20, nr. 52 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines. T. I, P. 2: Description historique, Paris 1907 p. 165, nr. 280, pl. 6, pic. 36 ❐

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cn coin 21889, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21889 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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