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cn coin 54371

Connected to Type

CN Type 21558 🔍

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
kantharos (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
14.71 g
Axis
2
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: EH,p565.1.Cyz

Provenience: Hawkins 1837

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 36, nr. 126  (Control erroneously described as owl)  ❐

Literature

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 42, nr. 23 (Group III)  ❐

Ashton et al., The Pixodarus Hoard (CH 9.421), 2002 p. 167-171 ❐

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