Kyzikos, stater (CN type 12394)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 475-410 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Mysiastater in electrum struck at Kyzikos in Mysia dated ca. 475-410 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 12394. Obverse: Bull with hanging tail and lowered left horn striding right atop a tunny right. Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- electrum
- Denomination
- stater
- Recorded diameter
- 20.4–21.2 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 16.03 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Kyzikos
- Region
- Mysia
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Bull with hanging tail and lowered left horn striding right atop a tunny right.
- Reverse type
- Quadripartite incuse square.
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12394
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 12394
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
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 14, nr. 178, pl. 5, pic. 26
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 30, nr. 86
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 323
Research required
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution