cn type 11460

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍

Region: Mysia

Date

c. 550-475 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Winged mythical creature (Phobos?) with the nude body of a man as well as long-eared, short-maned head of a predator and tail crouching to left. With his right hand he holds a tunny, while the left hand is cocked at his side.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍

Material

electrum 🔍

Diameter

Max: 22 mm / Min: 17.5 mm

Average Weight

16.02 g (3x)

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIb/c

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Amsterdam 1883 p. 242, nr. 42 ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 79, nr. 57, pl. 3, pic. 7 ❐

Imhoof-Blumer and Keller, Tier- und Pflanzenbilder auf Münzen und Gemmen des klassischen Altertums, Leipzig 1889 p. 72, nr. 23, pl. 12 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 123, pl. 4, pic. 9 (Gruppe IIb/c) ❐

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 p. 126, nr. 143, pl. 6 ❐

Franke, Die griechische Münze, München 1972 p. 146, nr. 704 ❐

Literature

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 271, pl. 14, pic. 271 ❐

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cn type 11460, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11460 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]