MK-B | Kyzikos 5. Jh. v. Chr.

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Kyzikos 5. Jh. v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 241, BM1/17 From Electrum to the Euro
Obverse	Eine Krabbe, den nach l. gewendeten Kopf eines Thunfisches in ihren Scheren haltend. Unten ein Thunfisch nach l.
Reverse	Viergeteiltes Quadratum Incusum.
Class/status	City
Date	5. Jh. 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.
	Electrum ; 16,13 g; 19 mm
Production	struck
Mint	Cyzicus
Region	Mysien
Country	Turkey
Publications	W. Greenwell, The Electrum Coinage of Cyzicus (1887) 121 f. Nr. 158 Taf. 6,20 (dieses Stück); H. von Fritze, Nomisma 7, 1912, 5 Nr. 36 Taf. 1,37 (dieses Stück); K. Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk (1924) Nr. 60 Taf. 3 (dieses Stück).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Vendor (to prev. Owner)	Paulos Ioannes Lambros
Accession	1900 Imhoof-Blumer
previous Owner	Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer
Object number	18200108
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