cn coin 38449

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
17.1 mm
Weight
16.11 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb

Provenience: Rollin and Feuardent, 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Cambridge 16,10_CorpusChrist(1922)=Lewis Cambr.37_16,11

Public Commentary

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

Citation

British Academy, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : [England] / The British Academy Vol. 4: Fitzwilliam Museum: Leake and general collections, London 1972 nr. 815 

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 38449, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38449 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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