cn coin 39045

Connected to Type

CN Type 12150 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of a young man on discus left. Below, a tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
13.6 mm
Weight
16.11 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p134A.1.Mil

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: London21,21

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 21, nr. 21, pl. 4, pic. 4 

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 90, nr. 77

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 8, nr. 105, pl. 3, pic. 24 (Group IIb/c) 

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 20, nr. 52

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines. T. I, P. 2: Description historique, Paris 1907 p. 165, nr. 280, pl. 6, pic. 36

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cn coin 39045, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39045 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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