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cn coin 44172

Connected to Type

CN Type 20212 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 390-341/340 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΣΩΤΕΙΡΑ
Design
Head of Kore Soteira left with her hair tied up in a shawl (sakkos), ears of grain, and an earring.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΥ-エΙ
Design
Lion head left with wide open mouth and tongue hanging out. Below, a tunny left.
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Symbol
grain of barley (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
14.71 g
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Provenience: Robinson 1965; Naville; Milne

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Milne 156

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1914) - Group III

Citation

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 544  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 42, nr. 23, pl. 5, pic. 26-34 (Group III)  ❐

Ashton et al., The Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9.421), 2002 p. 167, nr. 2 ❐

Bosch and Kraft, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Heft 4: Sammlung v. Aulock. Mysien, 1050-1438, Berlin 1957 nr. 1218 ❐

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cn coin 44172, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_44172 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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