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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 24870112, member: 87809&quot;][USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER] it looks like a tuna fish is on the obverse of your Hekte, can&#039;t say what&#039;s at the left of the fish. </p><p>Edited: Now I see, it is an Ibex <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Kyzikos location was ideal for tuna fishing. Schools of tuna passed every spring to enter the Marmara Sea to spawn; schools passed in the fall going back to the Mediterranean. In the archaic period, the tuna catch was the main source of income for the city. Thus, on all of the coins of Kyzikos, large or small, was engraved the tunny-fish (θυννος). The tuna fish was a symbol for Kyzikos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Got one from Kyzikos some time ago:</p><p>EL Hemihekte or 1/12 Stater</p><p>Mysia, Kyzikos (Kapu Dagh, Turkey), civic issue, ca. 600 - 550 BC</p><p>8.7 mm max. diameter, 1.301 g</p><p>Hurter-Liewald III 5.2; SNG Von Aulock 7255 (fish above off flan); BMC Mysia p. 18, 2 (Hekte);</p><p><br /></p><p>According to members at the German numismatic forum, the incuse on the reverse can help to estimate the date, but the estimate is not definitive, it is subjective. Based on the dating of diobols from Phokaia, a quadripartite incuse could as well be dated to ca. 550 - 500 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: head of tuna fish left, jaws closed, backbone protruding from truncation at right, pellet as eye, two pellets right, smaller tuna fish to right above</p><p>Rev.: irregular quadripartite incuse square</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture courtesy Forum Ancient Coins</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1595828[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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