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Stater
| Uitgever | Kyzikos (Mysia) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 400 BC - 380 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Nike, winged goddess of victory, depicted kneeling in three-quarter pose facing left, holding an aplustre (naval trophy ornament) in her outstretched hand. Beneath her figure, a tunny fish swims to the right, serving as the characteristic civic badge of Kyzikos. The figure is rendered in the refined Archaic-to-Early Classical style typical of Kyzikene electrum coinage, with crisp, detailed relief work against a smooth field. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Kyzikos was the dominant producer of electrum coinage in the Greek world throughout the fifth and fourth centuries, and its staters circulated far beyond Mysia — found in hoards from the Black Sea coast to the Levant. The city's natural access to electrum from the Pactolus river region and its strategic position on the Propontis made it the preferred hard currency for mercenary payments across Anatolia, a function explicitly noted in Xenophon.
Each Kyzikenian stater carried a unique reverse type per issue, making systematic die studies unusually complex. Von Fritze's corpus remains the foundational reference despite being over a century old.