cn type 11281
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cn type 11281

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
A griffin with open beak, angled wings, and a raised right forepaw standing left atop a tunny.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
10 mm (1x)
Average Weight
2.57 g (1x)
Citation

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 118, nr. 145, pl. 6, pic. 7 

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1443, nr. 2730, pl. 176, pic. 11 

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 8, nr. 100, pl. 3, pic. 18 

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 20, nr. 47 

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cn type 11281, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11281 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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