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cn coin 30781

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CN Type 22900 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-460 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Nude male figure with dolphin head (Apollo Delphinios?) flying left. In his outstretched right hand he holds a tunny.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square, quartered by two lines.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemihekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
8 mm
Weight
1.33 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18268850

Provenience: Fox 1873 (ex Baron Behr, 1857)

Citation

Lenormant and Behr, Description des médailles et antiquités composant le cabinet de M. le Baron Behr, Paris 1857 p. 71, nr. 413  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 82, nr. 60, pl. 3, pic. 11 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 79 ❐

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 p. 126, nr. 57, pl. 3 ❐

Franke, Die griechische Münze, München 1972 p. 145, nr. 699, pl. 198 ❐

Mani Hurter and Liewald, Die frühesten Typen der Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Thunfische, Thunfischköpfe und -hinterhälften, Bern 2006 p. 33, nr. 79, pl. 5 ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 82, nr. 60 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 79 ❐

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