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cn coin 21961

Connected to Type

CN Type 20213 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 390-341/340 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΣΩΤΕΙΡΑ
Design
Head of Kore Soteira left with her hair tied up in a shawl (sakkos), ears of grain, and an earring.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΥ-エΙ
Design
Lion head left with wide open mouth and tongue hanging out. Below, a tunny left.
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Symbol
head of a bull, right (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
14.72 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41766557

Provenience: Fonds général.145; Ex-collection Cousinéry 1821

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris_126

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 397  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 42, nr. 23, pl. 5, pic. 26-34 (Group III)  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 397 ❐

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cn coin 21961, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_21961 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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