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cn coin 44187

Connected to Type

CN Type 20205 🔍

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
five-rayed star (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
14.85 g
Axis
1
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p124D.2.Cyz

Provenience: Knight

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London_cat.36, 127

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1914) - Group III

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 36, nr. 127, pl. 9, pic. 10  ❐

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. 168, nr. 22-25 ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 36, nr. 127, pl. 9, pic. 10 ❐

Healy, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Great Britain 7. Manchester University Museum. The Raby and Güterbock collections., 1986 nr. 1173 ❐

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