West Asian mint

1 Stater , 1/2 Stater

Lead

Cast

Square

1.60 cm

1.60 cm

0.30 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
5.66	-	-	CPAI II	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
Torch	Relief

CPAI II : Square in form. On the face, in relief, a thin torch between ΚΥ - ΖC which stands for Κυζικηνών στάτηρον; bottom is blank. Its mass is less for stater, but there is a hole on the left corner, so the original mass must have been nearly 8.00-9.00 g. We know some staters that their masses are calculated as didrachm (8.00-9.00 g), while others have been calculated as tetradrachm (16.00-18.00 g). The survived examples of the stater weights of Cyzicus vary from ca. 18.00 g to 30.52 g. The reason for this may be the change of weight standard in time.
Tekin 2016a: Missing mass due to hole.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Denomination

Tekin 2016a: HC?
KY

GREEK

CPAI II : Hellenistic.

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Archaeological Museums Istanbul	Jan. 1, 2006	06.135 (M)

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
CPAI II	None	032	10	None
Tekin 2016a	80	135	None	None

CPAI II: For the examples of stater weights from Cyzicus see Weiss 1990, p. 120-121, nos. 5 (19.18 g), 6 (18.04 g), 7 (18.90 g), 8 (27.90 g) and 9 (30.52 g); Tekin 2013, no. 6.
Tekin 2016a: This weight was identified as a stater in the first publication but it should actually be a hemistateron.