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cn coin 39277

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CN Type 11291 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bearded Triton left, the upper part of the body turned forward, reclining over a tunny. In his raised right hand he holds a wreath.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
2.66 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 95.144

Provenience: ex E.P. Warren Coll. (1895); ex Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Carfrae collection, May 23-25, 1894), lot 201)

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Boston CPP 417

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group IIc

Citation

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 nr. 1425  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 50, nr. 11, pl. 1, pic. 12 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 126, pl. 4, pic. 12 ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 22, nr. 67 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines. T. I, P. 2: Description historique, Paris 1907 p. 163, nr. 274, pl. 6, pic. 32 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 276, pl. 14, pic. 276 ❐

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cn coin 39277, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39277 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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