Kyzikos, tetradrachm (CN type 20190)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 300-250 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Mysiatetradrachm in silver struck at Kyzikos in Mysia dated ca. 300-250 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20190. Obverse: Head of Kore Soteira left with her hair tied up in a shawl (sakkos), ears of grain, and an earring. Reverse: Apollo with laurel wreath sitting left on the omphalos covered with woolen bandages and standing on a base, turning his naked torso forward; in his outstretched right hand a patera or plectrum, his left arm resting on a cithara.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver
- Denomination
- tetradrachm
- Recorded diameter
- 23.8–24.7 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 13.32 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Kyzikos
- Region
- Mysia
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- reduced Rhodian
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of Kore Soteira left with her hair tied up in a shawl (sakkos), ears of grain, and an earring.
- Reverse type
- Apollo with laurel wreath sitting left on the omphalos covered with woolen bandages and standing on a base, turning his naked torso forward; in his outstretched right hand a patera or plectrum, his left arm resting on a cithara.
- Obverse legend
- ΣΩΤΕΙΡΑΣ
- Reverse legend
- ΚΥ-エΙ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20190
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20190
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. 47, nr. 31, pl. 6, pic. 9-10
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution