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cn coin 30784

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CN Type 11426 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Winged sphinx with a lotus tendril ending in two spirals on the crown of the head lying left, the right paw raised slightly. Below, 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
11 mm
Weight
2.71 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18268854

Provenience: Prokesch-Osten 1875

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIa

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 101, nr. 100 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 6, nr. 72, pl. 2, pic. 26 (Group IIa)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 25 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 201-202 ❐

Franke, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Sammlung v. Aulock. Nachträge II. Mysien 7191-7531, Troas 7532-7666, Aeolis 7667-7709, Lesbos 7710-7758, Berlin 1967 nr. 7277 ❐

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