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cn coin 38902

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CN Type 11273 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Lion with open mouth raised right forepaw sitting left atop a tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
11.8 mm
Weight
2.67 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p124B.2.Cyz

Provenience: Richard Payne Knight, 1824

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London42

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb

Citation

Knight, Nummi veteres civitatum, regum, gentium, et provinciarum, Londini in Museo, Londinum 1830 p. 124, nr. Cyz. B2  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 23, nr. 42  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 85, pl. 3, pic. 4 (Group IIb; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 103, nr. 105 ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 33 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 216-18, pl. 13, pic. 216-18 ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 103, nr. 105 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 85, pl. 3, pic. 4 (Group IIb/c; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 18, nr. 33 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 216-218, pl. 13, pic. 216-218 ❐

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