1983.56.27: Coin of Cyzicus
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1983.56.27
- Title
- Coin of Cyzicus
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 2nd-1st century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Kyzikos (Mysia)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Hellenistic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/195991
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Metal
- AE
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 8.57 g
- Die Axis
- 12
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- H. B. Wells purchased from Baldwin, London.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Unpublished with this monogram; cf. SNG von Aul. 1240
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of H. Bartlett Wells, Class of 1929
- Accession Year
- 1983
- Object Number
- 1983.56.27
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Obv.: Bull butting to r.
Rev.: Flaming torch, along the sides of which runs the inscription (the ethnic).
Verification Level
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