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cn coin 38402

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CN Type 11695 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 600-550 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Two tunny heads with spines above each other left; to the right of them an upwards tunny. Five dots around them.
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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
0.92 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p150B.3.Sil

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 328

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe I

Citation

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 3, nr. 10, pl. I, pic. 10  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 18, nr. 4, pl. III, pic. 10  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 3, nr. 10, pl. 1, pic. 10 (Group I)  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 18, nr. 4, pl. III, pic. 10 ❐

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cn coin 38402, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38402 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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