MK-B | Kyzikos ca. 550-460 v. Chr.

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Kyzikos ca. 550-460 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Münzkabinett, Vault
Obverse	Kopf einer Löwin mit geschlossenem Maul nach l. Daneben r. ein Thunfisch.
Reverse	Vertieftes, viergeteiltes Quadrat (Quadratum incusum). Innenteilung durch Linienkreuz.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 550-460 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 ; 16,23 g; 16-23 mm
Production	struck cracked flan
Mint	Cyzicus
Region	Mysia
Country	Turkey
Publications	W. Greenwell, The Electrum Coinage of Cyzicus (1887) 107 Nr. 115 a Taf. 5,8 (dieses Stück, Besitz Imhoof); H. von Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, Nomisma 7, 1912, 5 Gruppe 2 Nr. 39 Taf. 1,40 (dieses Stück, 550-460 v. Chr.); S. M. Hurter - H.-J. Liewald, Neue Nominale in der Elektronprägung von Kyzikos, SNR 83, 2004, 32 Nr. 39; I. Touratsoglou, Nomismatokopeiou Kyzikou. H paragoge se elektron. Eikonographike melete, Nomismatika Khronika 34, 2016, 16 Nr. 3.
Web Portals	https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/coins/19904
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 - 1900
Object number	18265362
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godparenthood	Carl-Ludwig Thiele Certificate (PDF)