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cn coin 39683

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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
stater 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
15.89 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p154A.1.Tei

Provenience: Richard Payne Knight

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 31,96

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 31, nr. 96, pl. VIII, pic. 3  ❐

Knight, Nummi veteres civitatum, regum, gentium, et provinciarum, Londini in Museo, Londinum 1830 p. 154  ❐

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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