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cn coin 21905

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CN Type 12900 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Nude young man kneeling left and holding a tunny by the tail fin in his outstretched right hand.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
18.1 mm
Weight
16.32 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766501

Provenience: Fonds général.488

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group IIc

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 253  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 94, nr. 86 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 9, nr. 112, pl. 3, pic. 31 (Group IIc)  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 22, nr. 28, pl. IV, pic. 11 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 253 ❐

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cn coin 21905, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21905 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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