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- ID: 196
Submitter: Jean-Luc
Added: 1998-01-04
MYSIA. Cyzicus (?).
Electrum Stater.
Av.: Female head to r. wearing corn wreath.
Rv.: Quadripartite incuse square.
16,07 g.
BoC: 17/2, 1992/3, p.17.
FAKE – This curiosity is surely intended to be a stater of Cyzicus despite the absence of the tunny fish. The obverse copies Arethusa heads as are found on Syracusan bronzes (see SNG ANS 526-529) and gold drachms struck by Hiketas (as SNG ANS 776-781).