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cn coin 38452

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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
21.5 mm
Weight
16.01 g
Owner

Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž (Ermitage), Sankt Petersburg, ru

Owner Inventory No.: 1186

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Petersburg23_16,03

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Frolova et al., Cyzicenes from the State Historical Museum, Moscow and the State Hermitage Collections, St. Petersburg 86, 2007 pl. 1, pic. 12 

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 38452, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38452 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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