Featured The tale of Kyzikos and the mysterious missing coin

Thanks TIF! She found it by griding the room and expanding the search. I thought of vacuuming but didn't want to risk breaking the lil fella.
That Eumenes is a bucket list coin for sure... but yours is a GD MASTERPIECE
As well, I've been on the hunt for once of those Satanic looking (for non ritualistic purposes)coins from Pitane ever since seeing yours #IblameTIF
If it makes you feel better for not having Kyzikos coins...I STILL don't have a flying pig! LOVE the early TIFimation Like watching steam boat wily
Funny enough, I just was under biddr on a Hadrian with Themistocles on the reverse from this morning's NN auction.
Maybe next time. Here's someone's new buddy

Extremely rare The reverse of this very rare issue shows the Athenian general Themistokles, who defeated the Persian fleet at Salamis in 480 BC. When he was exiled in the late 470ies or early 460ies, the Persians gave him the cities of Magnesia ad Maeandrum, Myus and Lampsakos as a hereditary principality.

Ummm, that is an AWESOME present! @rrdenarius nailed it!
This MSC was made to honor the CT godess as it clearly says TIFlower on the reverse...


But now I need to find a RYRO monogram on an ancient
Closest I could come:

 

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@Ryro - I have come late to this thread. Your mystery coin dates
from a period when Kyzikos coins usually have a tunny fish somewhere in the design - mine certainly all do .

MYSIA. Kyzikos. EL Hemihekte (Circa 600-550 BC).
Obv: Two tunny fish swimming in opposite directions.
Rev: Quadripartite incuse square.
Hurter & Liewald III, 35.2 in:
Weight: 1.35 g.
Diameter: 8 mm.


Mysia, Kyzikos EL Stater. Circa 550-500 BC.
Forepart of ram left; tunny fish behind / Quadripartite incuse square.
Von Fritze 46
16.07g, 22mm.

MYSIA. Kyzikos. EL Hekte (5th-4th centuries BC).

Obv: Head of Pan or satyr right, wearing ivy wreath; below, tunny right.