Hemihekte

Features

Issuer Kyzikos (Mysia)
Period City administration (600 BC - 1 AD)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 600 BC - 550 BC
Value Hemihekte (½)
Currency Electrum Stater (600-330BC)
Composition Electrum
Weight 1.35 g
Diameter 8.0 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered, incuse
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
133957
References Von Fritze# 11,
Hans von Fritze, Hugo Gaebler; 1907. Nomisma / Band 1 : Untersuchung auf dem Gebiete der Antiken Münzkunde. Mayer & Müller, Berlin, Germany.
And 11 more volumes.
H&L III# 18.1,
Silvia Mani Hurter, Hans-Joachim Liewald; 2006. Die Frühesten Typen der Elektronprägung von Kyzikos : Thunfische, Thunfischköpfe und -hinterhälften. Schweizerische Numismatische Gesellschaft, Zürich, Switzerland.
SNG France# 169
Edoardo Levante; 1993. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France / Volume 2. Bibliothèque nationale de France: Cilicie. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France.
And 6 more volumes.

Obverse

Upward facing tunny flanked by two tunny heads facing outward.

Reverse

Quadripartite incuse square.

Mint

Cyzicus, modern-day Kapıdağ Peninsula, Turkey

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (600 BC - 550 BC) 

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