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cn coin 44241

Connected to Type

CN Type 20194 🔍

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 340-300 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
Legend reverse ΚΥエΙΚΗΝΩΝ
Design
Lion head left with wide open mouth and tongue hanging out. Below, a tunny left.
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Symbol
kantharos (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
14.91 g
Axis
8
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: BNK,G.447

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 454

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1914) - Group IV

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 36, nr. 135  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 45, nr. 24, pl. 5, pic. 39 (Group IV)  ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 36, nr. 135 ❐

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cn coin 44241, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_44241 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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