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cn coin 38725

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CN Type 12532 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bull standing left on a tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
20.9 mm
Weight
15.93 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p95A.1.Byz

Provenience: Richard Payne Knight, 1824

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: CambridgeElectrotype_london85

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group IIc

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 30, nr. 85  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 8, nr. 88, pl. 3, pic. 8  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 109, nr. 121 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1451, nr. 2765, pl. 177, pic. 2 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 8, nr. 88, pl. 3, pic. 7 (Group IIb/c)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 19, nr. 36 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 222-223, pl. 13, pic. 222-223 ❐

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cn coin 38725, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38725 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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