cn type 11286

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 550-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Nude muscular man with hair band (taenia) squatting right with his right leg bent, holding a knife in his lowered right hand and a tunny in his raised left hand.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

hekte 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 13.4 mm / Min: 10 mm

Average Weight

2.67 g (12x)

Public Commentary

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

Citation

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 95, nr. 88, pl. 4, pic. 11  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 9, nr. 113, pl. 3, pic. 32  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 21, nr. 57  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 22, nr. 31, pl. 4, pic. 14  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 255-258, pl. 14, pic. 255-258  ❐

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cn type 11286, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/11286 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/23]

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