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-1/21b The Beginning of Coinage
Obverse	Geflügelter Greif mit erhobener r. Pfote nach l. Darunter ein Thunfisch nach l.
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 ; 15,99 g; 20 mm
Production	struck
Mint	Cyzicus
Region	Mysia
Country	Turkey
Publications	W. Greenwell, The Electrum Coinage of Cyzicus (1887) 117 Nr. 143 (dieses Stück erwähnt, Besitz Löbbecke); H. von Fritze, Nomisma 7, 1912, 8 Nr. 99. Vgl. SNG Aulock Nr. 1195 (zu 2,65 g, ca. 500-450 v. Chr.); SNG Kopenhagen Nr. 42 (zu 2,26 g, 5. Jh. v. Chr.).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1906 Löbbecke
previous Owner	Arthur Löbbecke - 1906
Object number	18203043
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