MK-B | Kyzikos ca. 600-550 v. Chr.

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Kyzikos ca. 600-550 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 241, BM-1/16 From Electrum to the Euro
Obverse	Register mit zwei großen und drei kleinen Thunfischen. Zwischen beiden großen Thunfischen ein Punkt r.
Reverse	Viergeteiltes Quadratum Incusum.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 600-550 v. Chr. Archaic
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.
	Electrum ; 16,20 g; 18 mm
Production	struck
Mint	Cyzicus
Region	Mysia
Country	Turkey
Publications	H. von Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos, Nomisma 7, 1912, 3 Nr. 14 Taf. 1, 14 (dieses Stück).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1873 Fox
previous Owner	Charles Richard Fox
Object number	18200107
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