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cn coin 38392

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CN Type 11674 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 600-550 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Tunny head with spine left, above a diagonal upwards 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
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
2.68 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1878,0301.386

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 526

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912), Gruppe I

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 18, nr. 2, pl. III, pic. 8  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 2, nr. 1, pl. 1, pic. 1 (Group I)  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 2, nr. 2, pl. 1, pic. 2 (Group I)  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 18, nr. 2, pl. III, pic. 8 ❐

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cn coin 38392, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38392 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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