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cn coin 30787

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CN Type 11525 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 475-410 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Nude, clean-shaven Perseus with winged Phrygian cap and a cloak (chlamys) around his shoulders squatting right with his head turned back. In his right hand he holds a sickle, and in his left the head of Medusa. Below, a tunny right.
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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
2.66 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18268857

Provenience: 1851/9240 (Lambros)

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe III

Citation

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 89, nr. 74  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 89, nr. 74 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 12, nr. 162, pl. 5, pic. 10 (Group III; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Mani Hurter and Liewald, Neue Nominale in der Elektronprägung von Kyzikos, Bern 2004 p. 34, nr. 162 ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 28, nr. 104 ❐

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