cn coin 54356
cn coin 54356-0
cn coin 54356-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 54356

Connected to Type

CN Type 11588 🔍

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
owl (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
15.24 g
Axis
11
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Provenience: Robinson 1959

Citation

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 545  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 45, nr. 24, pl. 5, pic. 35-40 (Group III)  ❐

Franke, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Sammlung v. Aulock. Nachträge II. Mysien 7191-7531, Troas 7532-7666, Aeolis 7667-7709, Lesbos 7710-7758, Berlin 1967 nr. 7346 ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 405-406 ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 545 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 54356, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_54356 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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