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Hekte
| Issuer | Kyzikos |
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| Year | 550 BC - 450 BC |
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| Currency | Electrum Stater (600-330BC) |
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| Obverse description | Janiform head composed of a facing-left nymph wearing a stephanos and a facing-right satyr, their profiles conjoined back-to-back in archaic style. Below the janiform head, a tunny fish swims to the right, serving as the characteristic Kyzikene civic emblem and die-control device. The design is rendered in the bold, archaic Greek tradition characteristic of Kyzikos electrum coinage of the sixth and fifth centuries BC. |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square of mill-sail (skew) type, deeply recessed into the flan and divided by raised diagonal bars into four alternating raised and sunken triangular compartments, a hallmark of early Greek coinage struck by the hammer-and-punch technique. The incuse pattern fills the entire reverse field, with no legend or additional devices present. The irregular flan edges are typical of hammered electrum hektes of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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