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cn coin 39153

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CN Type 11286 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Nude muscular man with hair band (taenia) squatting right with his right leg bent, holding a knife in his lowered right hand and a tunny in his raised left hand.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
13.4 mm
Weight
2.75 g
Owner

Koninklijk Kabinet van Munten, Penningen en Gesneden Stenen - Den Haag / Nationale Numismatische Collectie - Amsterdam, Amsterdam, nl

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Haag_r_3.81_2,75

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group IIc

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 95, nr. 88, pl. 4, pic. 11

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 9, nr. 113, pl. 3, pic. 32

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 21, nr. 57

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 22, nr. 31, pl. 4, pic. 14

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 255-258, pl. 14, pic. 255-258

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cn coin 39153, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39153 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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