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cn coin 24743

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CN Type 11273 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Lion with open mouth raised right forepaw sitting left atop a tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
10.6 mm
Weight
2.69 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41773274

Provenience: Delepierre 2508

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 218, pl. 13, pic. 218  ❐

Nicolet, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des médailles, Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre, Paris 1983 nr. 2508  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 103, nr. 105 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 85, pl. 3, pic. 4 (Group IIb/c; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 33 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 216-218, pl. 13, pic. 216-218 ❐

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cn coin 24743, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_24743 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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