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Hemihekte
| Issuer | Kyzikos (Mysia) |
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| Year | 450 BC - 330 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
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| Obverse description | A winged sphinx seated to the left in a highly plastic, archaic style, the creature rendered with carefully engraved feathers on the folded wings and a leonine body in high relief. Beneath the sphinx, a tunny fish swims to the left, serving as the characteristic Kyzikene mint mark that appears on virtually all electrum coinage of this city. The composition fills the flan compactly, with the sphinx occupying the majority of the field. The engraving displays the confident, bold style typical of fifth- to fourth-century Kyzikene electrum issues. |
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| Reverse description | A quadripartite incuse square dominates the entire reverse, divided into four recessed compartments by two perpendicular grooves meeting at the centre, creating a windmill or stepped pattern characteristic of early Greek hammered coinage. The incuse is deeply impressed and irregular in outline, reflecting the hand-struck nature of the flan. The surface texture within each quadrant is rough and granular, consistent with the archaic punch technique employed by Kyzikene die-cutters. No legend or subsidiary device is present, as is standard for electrum fractions of this series. |
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| Mint | Kyzikos |
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