cn type 21540

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

Bee (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

14 mm (1x)

Average Weight

3.03 g (1x)

Axes

12 (1x)

Public Commentary

For chronology, see A. Meadows, Cyzicus, Pixodarus Hoard, in: Coin Hoards IX (2002) 167-171 (c. 390-341/340 v. Chr.).

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 243, nr. 76  ❐

Fritze, Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1914 p. 42, nr. 23  ❐

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cn type 21540, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21540 [Last downloaded: 2024/09/18]

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