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cn coin 38876

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CN Type 11270 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Siren with upright wings standing left on a ground line. In the raised right front paw she holds a tunny by the tail fin.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
2.62 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: Luynes

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Luynes 2106, 2.61

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIa

Citation

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 203, pl. 12, pic. 203  ❐

Babelon, Catalogue de la collection De Luynes: monnayes grecques, Sala Bolognese 1977 nr. 2439  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 100, nr. 97, pl. 4, pic. 24 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 74, pl. 2, pic. 29 (Group IIa; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 26 ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 100, nr. 97, pl. 4, pic. 24 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 74, pl. 2, pic. 29 (Group IIa; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 26 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 203, pl. 12, pic. 203 ❐

Franke, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Sammlung v. Aulock. Nachträge II. Mysien 7191-7531, Troas 7532-7666, Aeolis 7667-7709, Lesbos 7710-7758, Berlin 1967 nr. 7278-7280 ❐

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