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cn coin 39020

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CN Type 11256 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Winged griffin with an open beak and raised right forepaw standing left atop tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
16.1 mm
Weight
15.80 g
Owner

Provenience: Spencer-Churchill, ex Ars Classica XIV, 1929, no. 326 (ex Grand-Duc Alex. Mich. = Naville IV [1922], 751)

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Nav.14_13.326 // SpencerChurchill7C3

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb

Citation

Naville, Sammlung des Großfürsten Alexander Michailowitsch und Arthur J. Evans 4, Genua 1922 nr. 751 

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 8, nr. 99, pl. 3, pic. 19 (Group IIb/c) 

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 117, nr. 143, pl. 6, pic. 5

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 239-240, pl. 13, pic. 239-240

Bosch and Kraft, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Heft 4: Sammlung v. Aulock. Mysien, 1050-1438, Berlin 1957 nr. 1195, annot. Hekte

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 42, annot. Hekte

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cn coin 39020, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39020 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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