MK-B | Kyzikos ca. 500-450 v. Chr.

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Kyzikos ca. 500-450 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM-1/21a The Beginning of Coinage
Obverse	Kopf der Athena mit attischem Helm und Helmbusch nach l. Darunter ein Thunfisch nach l. Das Auge in archaischer Darstellungsweise.
Reverse	Viergeteiltes Quadratum incusum.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 500-450 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 ; 16,15 g; 19-23 mm
Production	struck
Mint	Cyzicus
Region	Mysia
Country	Turkey
Publications	W. Greenwell, The Electrum Coinage of Cyzicus (1887) 60 Nr. 25 a (dieses Stück, Besitz Imhoof); H. von Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos, Nomisma 7, 1912, 7 Nr. 67; Schultz (1997) Nr. 77. Vgl. SNG Aulock Nr. 1184-1185 (zu je 2,58 u. 1,25 g, ca. 500-450 v. Chr.).
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	18203042
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