Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 40285

Connected to Type

CN Type 12693 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Sphinx protome with long, beaded hair and spiral lotus vine on the crown of the head as well as raised, curved wings standing left and raising the right paw; in the lower right field a tunny diagonally downwards left.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
go to the NLP result of this description
Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
20.5 mm
Weight
16.11 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1878,0301.378

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London Cat 23,35_18

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group IIa

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 23, nr. 35, pl. IV, pic. 17  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 6, nr. 71, pl. 2, pic. 24 (Group IIa)  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 198-199 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 40285, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40285 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us