cn type 11289

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 550-475 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Nude, bearded Silenus with long hair kneeling left. He holds a tunny by the tail fin in his raised right hand; the left hand is supported at his side.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology

Denomination

hekte 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 12.5 mm / Min: 10 mm

Average Weight

2.67 g (3x)

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IIc

Citation

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 69, nr. 41  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 10, nr. 122, pl. 4, pic. 8  (Group IIc; Stater illustrated)  ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 22, nr. 63  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 270, pl. 14, pic. 270  ❐

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cn type 11289, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/11289 [Last downloaded: 2025/07/11]

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