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cn coin 38733

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CN Type 11274 🔍

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
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
2.61 g
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: McClean 33, 2.68

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb

Citation

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins. 3: Asia Minor, farther Asia, Egypt, Africa, Cambridge 1929 p. 45, nr. 7564, pl. 259, pic. 15 

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 8, nr. 88 (Group IIb) 

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 224, pl. 13, pic. 224

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

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

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

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 (Group IIb/c; Stater illustrated) 

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 224, pl. 13, pic. 224

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cn coin 38733, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38733 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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