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cn coin 21915

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CN Type 11290 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Centaur left, head and upper body turned back and picking up a tree (spruce?) with roots as if to defend himself.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
10.4 mm
Weight
2.63 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766511

Provenience: Fonds général.501

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIc

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 273, pl. 14, pic. 273  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 124, pl. 4, pic. 11  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 71, nr. 46, pl. 2, pic. 24 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 124, pl. 4, pic. 11 (Group IIb/c)  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 273, pl. 14, pic. 273 ❐

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cn coin 21915, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21915 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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