cn type 19455

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 600-550 BC
Archaic Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Tuna to the right, above close to the tail a lotus flower, below tuna head with spine to the right.
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Reverse

Design

Quadripartite incuse square; the area of the partial squares is different in height, the treatment rough.
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Metrology

Denomination

hekte 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

10.2 mm (1x)

Average Weight

2.68 g (1x)

Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1912) - Group I

Citation

Mani Hurter and Liewald, Die frühesten Typen der Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Thunfische, Thunfischköpfe und -hinterhälften, Bern 2006 nr. 29.1  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 3, nr. 13, pl. 1, pic. 13  (Group I)  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 170, pl. 11, pic. 170  ❐

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cn type 19455, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/19455 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/07]

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