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cn coin 39691

Connected to Type

CN Type 11437 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Nude male youth riding a dolphin left, holding a tunny in his outstretched right hand. Below, a tunny left.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
15.6 mm
Weight
15.88 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1845,0109.37

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 29,76

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIc

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 29, nr. 76, pl. VII, pic. 4  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 49, nr. 9, pl. 1, pic. 9 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 9, nr. 110, pl. 3, pic. 29 (Group IIc)  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 251, pl. 13, pic. 251 ❐

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cn coin 39691, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39691 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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