MK-B | Kyzikos ca. 550-480 v. Chr.

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Kyzikos ca. 550-480 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 242, BM-32/032 The Ancient World to the End of the 3rd Cent. AD
Obverse	Bärtiger Kopf eines Mannes nach l. Darunter ein Thunfisch.
Reverse	In vier gleich große Quadrate geteiltes Incusum.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 550-480 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 ; 16,13 g; 20 mm
Production	struck
Mint	Cyzicus
Region	Mysia
Country	Turkey
Publications	F. Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques (1883) 242 Nr. 69 (dieses Stück); W. Greenwell, The Electrum Coinage of Cyzicus (1887) 91 Nr. 78 Taf. 3,31 (dieses Stück); H. von Fritze, Nomisma 7, 1912, 6. 22. 24 Nr. 66 Taf. 2,19 (dieses Stück); K. Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk (1924) 126 Nr. 125 Taf. 5 (dieses Stück).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Vendor (to prev. Owner)	Jean-Henri Hoffmann
Accession	1900 Imhoof-Blumer
previous Owner	Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer - 1900
Object number	18200150
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