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cn coin 38390

Connected to Type

CN Type 11687 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 575-500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Tunny head with spine right, below a tunny right.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square; the area of the partial squares is different in height, the treatment rough.
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Metrology
Denomination
Hemihekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
8 mm
Weight
1.33 g
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: McClean 10_1,33

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe I

Citation

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins. 3: Asia Minor, farther Asia, Egypt, Africa, Cambridge 1929 p. 44, nr. 7555, pl. 259, pic. 11  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 3, nr. 7, pl. 1, pic. 6 (Group I)  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 3, nr. 7, pl. 1, pic. 6 (Group I)  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 166-167, pl. 11, pic. 166-167 ❐

Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 70, nr. 4964, pl. 181, pic. 4964 ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 123, nr. 165 ❐

Mani Hurter and Liewald, Die frühesten Typen der Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Thunfische, Thunfischköpfe und -hinterhälften, Bern 2006 p. 10, nr. 7.2 ❐

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