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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
hekte 🔍  
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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