cn coin 44242
cn coin 44242-0
cn coin 44242-1
cn coin 44242-2
cn coin 44242-3
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 44242

Connected to Type

CN Type 11590 🔍

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.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΚΥエΙΚΗΝΩΝ
Design
Lion head left with wide open mouth and tongue hanging out. Below, a tunny left.
go to the NLP result of this description
Symbol
shell (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
15.12 g
Axis
4
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p124D.3.Cyz

Provenience: Knight

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 422

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1914) - Group IV

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 36, nr. 134, pl. 9, pic. 14  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 45, nr. 24, pl. 5, pic. 35-40 (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. 134, pl. 9, pic. 14 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 44242, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_44242 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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