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cn coin 38802

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CN Type 11269 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena left wearing Attic helmet with panache. Underneath, a tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
2.68 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.1293

Provenience: Edward Perry Warren

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Boston 1444

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIa

Citation

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 nr. 1447  ❐

Literature

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 17, nr. 21 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 6, nr. 67, pl. 2, pic. 20 (Group IIa; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 60, nr. 25 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 6, nr. 67, pl. 2, pic. 20 (Group IIa; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 20, nr. 20, pl. IV, pic. 3 ❐

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cn coin 38802, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38802 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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