cn type 20208
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cn type 20208

Mint
Kyzikos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 390-341/340 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΣΩΤΕΙΡΑ
Design
Head of Kore Soteira left with her hair tied up in a shawl (sakkos), ears of grain, and an earring.
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Reverse
Legend
ΚΥ-エΙ
Design
Lion head left with wide open mouth and tongue hanging out. Below, a tunny left.
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Symbol
Pilos (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.1 mm / Min: 23 mm
Average Weight
14.85 g (6x)
Axes
3 (3x)
Public Commentary

H. von Fritze (1914) - Group III

Citation

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 42, nr. 23, pl. 5, pic. 27  (Group III)  ❐

Robinson, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Volume III. The Lockett Collection. Part 4. Peloponnese-Aeolis., London 1946 nr. 2700  ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 36, nr. 125, pl. 9, pic. 9  (Symbol incorrectly described)  ❐

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