Kyzikos, stater (CN type 12100)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 550-475 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Mysiastater in electrum struck at Kyzikos in Mysia dated ca. 550-475 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 12100. Obverse: Winged sphinx with a lotus tendril ending in two spirals on the crown of the head lying left, the right paw raised slightly. Below, a tunny left. Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- electrum
- Denomination
- stater
- Recorded diameter
- 20–20.2 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 16.21 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Kyzikos
- Region
- Mysia
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Winged sphinx with a lotus tendril ending in two spirals on the crown of the head lying left, the right paw raised slightly. Below, a tunny left.
- Reverse type
- Quadripartite incuse square.
Identification
- Period
- Archaic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12100
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 12100
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Research required
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 101, nr. 100
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 6, nr. 72, pl. 2, pic. 25
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 18, nr. 25
Research required
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- No rights-cleared photograph attached yet