Kyzikos
ca. 460-400 v. Chr.
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Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen  Münzkabinett, Vault |
Obverse |
Kopf des Herakles mit Löwenfell nach r. Unten ein Thunfisch. |
Reverse |
Vertieftes, viergeteiltes Quadrat (Quadratum incusum). Falzschrötling. |
Date |
ca. 460-400 v. Chr. Classical  |
Denomination |
Stater  StaterLiterally 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. |
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Electrum ; 15,96 g; 15-20 mm |
Publications |
C. R. Fox, Engravings of unpublished or rare Greek Coins II (1862) 5 Nr. 23 Taf. 2 (dieses Stück, Zeichnung); W. Greenwell, The Electrum Coinage of Cyzicus (1887) 82 f. Nr. 62 Taf. 3,18 (dieses Stück erwähnt); H. von Fritze, Die Elektronprägung von Kyzikos. Eine chronologische Studie, Nomisma 7, 1912, 12 Gruppe 3 a-b Nr. 140 (460-400 v. Chr.); W. Fischer-Bossert, Kyzikener Falzschrötlinge, MÖNG 55, 2015, 83. |
Department |
Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods |
previous Owner |
Charles Richard Fox 1857 - 1873
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