cn type 22900

Mint

Kyzikos 🔍 ❐
Region: Mysia ❐

Date

c. 550-460 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Nude male figure with dolphin head (Apollo Delphinios?) flying left. In his outstretched right hand he holds a tunny.
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Reverse

Design

Incuse square, quartered by two lines.
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Metrology

Denomination

Hemihekte 🔍 ❐

Material

electrum  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 8 mm / Min: 7 mm

Average Weight

1.33 g (7x)

Citation

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 p. 126, nr. 57, pl. 3  ❐

Franke, Die griechische Münze, München 1972 p. 145, nr. 699, pl. 198  ❐

Mani Hurter and Liewald, Die frühesten Typen der Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Thunfische, Thunfischköpfe und -hinterhälften, Bern 2006 p. 33, nr. 79, pl. 5  ❐

Greenwell, The electrum coinage of Cyzicus, London 1887 p. 82, nr. 60  ❐

Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, 1912 p. 7, nr. 79  ❐

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cn type 22900, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22900 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/16]

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