Coin from Cyzicus | Yale University Art Gallery

100–299

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 13.72 g, 6:00, 30 mm
Credit Line: Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
Accession Number: 2004.6.2408
Geography: Made in Cyzicus, Mysia
Culture: Greek
Period: 2nd–3rd century A.D.
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Head of hero Cyzicus, with diadem, to r.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: Demeter standing front, head to l., holding ear of corn and torch

Provenance

Bernard Overbeck, Germany, to July 1977; Professor Dr. Peter Robert Franke and Leonore Franke, Munich, 1977–2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 212, pl. 199

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

coins

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