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cn coin 21954

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CN Type 21604 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 525-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Protome of a boar with a high mane jumping left. In the right field, an upwards diagonal tunny .
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Reverse
Design
Lion head left with wide open mouth, tongue hanging out and a row of dots at the end of the mane; all within incuse square.
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Symbol
K retrograde (position: top left)
Metrology
Denomination
Siglos 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
4.84 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766550

Provenience: Fonds général.135; Waddington 695

Citation

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 36, nr. 15, pl. 5, pic. 18  ❐

Babelon, Inventaire sommaire de la Collection Waddington, Paris 1898 nr. 695  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 379  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 36, nr. 15, pl. 5, pic. 18 (Group II)  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 379 ❐

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cn coin 21954, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21954 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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