cn coin 38803

Connected to Type

CN Type 11269 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena left wearing Attic helmet with panache. Underneath, a tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
10.8 mm
Weight
2.67 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1841,B.2296

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: London 20

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIa

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 20, nr. 20 

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 38803, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_38803 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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