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MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte –Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.31 g). Head of tunny left, with tunny upward in its mouth / Quadripartite incuse square. Hurter & Liewald 24.1; Von Fritze I –; Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; Gulbenkian 602. Minor marks. Good VF. Well centered.
From the Siren Collection.
The celebrated electrum coinage of Kyzikos began in the first half of the sixth century BC, and from the beginning the coinage was notable for the variety and inventiveness of its designs. These staters and fractions were regarded as gold coins and circulated throughout a large area along with the gold darics of the Persian Empire. On all of the coins of Kyzikos, large or small, was engraved the tunny-fish (θυννος), which constituted an important product in the Kyzikene economy. This intriguing electrum hekte depicting two tunnies, one in the mouth of another, is among the earliest struck.
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