MK-B | Kyme ca. 420-380 v. Chr.

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Kyme ca. 420-380 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 241, BM-32/004 The Ancient World to the End of the 3rd Cent. AD
Obverse	Löwenskalp, gerahmt von zwei Eberköpfen.
Reverse	KYMAION. Muschel und Wasserschnecke.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 420-380 v. Chr. Classical
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Silver ; 7,54 g; 22 mm; 10 h
Production	struck
Mint	Cumae
Region	Campania
Country	Italy
Publications	N. K. Rutter, Campanian Coinages (1979) 135 Nr. 144 Taf. 7 (dieses Stück); N. K. Rutter, Historia Numorum. Italy (2001) 67 Nr. 535.
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Provenance	Unter den in Italien durch Julius Friedländer für die Königlichen Museen erworbenen Münzen.
Accession	1846/6440
Object number	18200004
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