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cn type 12272

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Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 475-410 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Bearded head of Dionysos right with long hair and a wide headband over the ivy wreath; below, a tunny right.
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Reverse
Design
Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Material
electrum 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 18.5 mm / Min: 17.1 mm
Average Weight
15.44 g (3x)
Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group III

Citation

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 11, nr. 139, pl. 4, pic. 24  (Group III)  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 25, nr. 58  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 288  ❐

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cn type 12272, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12272 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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