Stater

Kyzikos held a near-monopoly on electrum coinage in the eastern Aegean for roughly two centuries, and its staters functioned as the dominant high-value trade currency across the Greek world during that period — accepted from the Black Sea grain ports to the Athenian agora. The city's position on the Propontis made it an unavoidable transit point, and its coinage was trusted precisely because Kyzikene electrum carried a consistent natural gold-to-silver ratio without the adulteration that plagued many civic issues.

Each stater in the series bears a different reverse type, making die-for-die duplication essentially nonexistent across the corpus. Von Fritze's cataloguing effort, still the authoritative reference, identified over 200 distinct types within the series.