cn type 12261

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍

Region: Mysia

Date

c. 475-410 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Female head right with sakkos, closed at the crown and decorated with meander and zigzag pattern; below, a tunny right.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Type variations

1. Standard quadratum incusum.

Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍

Material

electrum 🔍

Diameter

Max: 20.2 mm / Min: 18.2 mm

Average Weight

15.98 g (2x)

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group III

Citation

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 11, nr. 136, pl. 4, pic. 22 (Group III) ❐

Mannsperger, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 4. Heft: Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. Mysien - Ionien. Nr. 2174-3306, München 1989 nr. 2233 ❐

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cn type 12261, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12261 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]