Kyzikos, the Propontic city that dominated electrum coinage production from roughly the sixth through fourth centuries BC, issued staters in a bewildering variety of types — estimates run to several hundred distinct obverse designs. The city's electrum came largely from Lydian trade networks, and Kyzikene staters circulated as a de facto international currency across the Greek world, accepted well beyond any single polis's political reach.
The H&L I#9a reference places this among the earliest documented Kyzikene types. Hoards from the Black Sea region have yielded the highest concentrations of these early issues.
Kyzikos, the Propontic city that dominated electrum coinage production from roughly the sixth through fourth centuries BC, issued staters in a bewildering variety of types — estimates run to several hundred distinct obverse designs. The city's electrum came largely from Lydian trade networks, and Kyzikene staters circulated as a de facto international currency across the Greek world, accepted well beyond any single polis's political reach.
The H&L I#9a reference places this among the earliest documented Kyzikene types. Hoards from the Black Sea region have yielded the highest concentrations of these early issues.