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cn coin 24744

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CN Type 11291 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bearded Triton left, the upper part of the body turned forward, reclining over a tunny. In his raised right hand he holds a wreath.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
2.65 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41773275

Provenience: Delepierre 2509

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group IIb

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 276, pl. 14, pic. 276  ❐

Nicolet, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des médailles, Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre, Paris 1983 nr. 2509  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 50, nr. 11, pl. 1, pic. 12 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 126, pl. 4, pic. 12 ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 22, nr. 67 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines. T. I, P. 2: Description historique, Paris 1907 p. 163, nr. 274, pl. 6, pic. 32 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 276, pl. 14, pic. 276 ❐

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cn coin 24744, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_24744 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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