Kyzikos, stater (CN type 12532)
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 12532. Obverse: Bull standing left on a tunny left. Reverse: Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- electrum
- Denomination
- stater
- Recorded diameter
- 17.3–21 mm (from 8 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 15.95 g (mean of 7 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Kyzikos
- Region
- Mysia
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Bull standing left on a tunny left.
- Reverse type
- Incuse square of mill-sail pattern.
Identification
- Period
- Archaic/Classical Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12532
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 12532
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. 109, nr. 121
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 1451, nr. 2765, pl. 177, pic. 2
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 8, nr. 88, pl. 3, pic. 7
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 19, nr. 36
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 222-223, pl. 13, pic. 222-223
Research required
- Legends not transcribed in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution