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cn coin 39703

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CN Type 11289 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Nude, bearded Silenus with long hair kneeling left. He holds a tunny by the tail fin in his raised right hand; the left hand is supported at his side.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Overstrike
X-like countermark
Metrology
Denomination
hekte 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
11.3 mm
Weight
2.66 g
Owner

Sammlung Leake, Cambridge, gb

Provenience: Sotheby 31.07.1852, 149, Fox

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Leake 30, 2.66

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIc

Citation

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 69, nr. 41  ❐

Babington, Catalogue of a selection from colonel Leake's Greek coins, exhibited in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1867 p. 19, nr. 21  ❐

British Academy, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : [England] / The British Academy Vol. 4: Fitzwilliam Museum: Leake and general collections, London 1972 nr. 4145, pl. 77, pic. 4145  ❐

Literature

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 69, nr. 41 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 122, pl. 4, pic. 8 (Group IIc; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 22, nr. 63 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 270, pl. 14, pic. 270 ❐

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