cn type 11499

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍

Region: Mysia

Date

c. 410-330 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Heracles and Iphicles kneeling, facing away from each other as nude young men. In the raised right and the lowered left hands Heracles chokes a snake, while Iphicles raises his hands pleadingly. Below, a tunny left.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
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Metrology

Denomination

stater 🔍

Material

electrum 🔍

Diameter

Max: 21 mm / Min: 18 mm

Average Weight

16.05 g (5x)

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Gruppe IV

Citation

Prokesch-Osten, Inedita meiner Sammlung autonomer altgriechischer Muenzen phil. hist. Kl. 5, 1854 p. 49, pl. 4, pic. 2 ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 83, nr. 63, pl. 1, pic. 20 ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 15, nr. 208, pl. 6, pic. 20 (Group IV) ❐

Sestini, Descrizione degli stateri antichi illustrati con le medaglie, Firenze 1817 p. 65, nr. 15 ❐

Waddington, Monnaies des Rois du Pont, 1863 p. 234–235 ❐

Touratsoglou, Mint of Kyzikos. The electrum production. Iconographic Study 34, 2016 p. 36, nr. 165 ❐

Literature

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 341, pl. 17, pic. 341 ❐

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cn type 11499, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11499 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]