cn coin 38448

Connected to Type

CN Type 11421 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-460 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of a billy goat left. In the right field a diagonal upwards tunny (back inwards).
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
18.7 mm
Weight
16.04 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p106A.1.Aeg

Provenience: Richard Payne Knight, 1824

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: London 31,88

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIa (550-475 v. Chr.)

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 31, nr. 88, pl. 7, pic. 16 

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 113, nr. 134

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 5, nr. 48

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 16, nr. 7

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 186, pl. 11, pic. 186

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 31, nr. 88, pl. 7, pic. 16

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cn coin 38448, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38448 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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