Today we're going to the 6th Century BC. Coinage is still in its infancy, and the city of Cyzicus begins putting very creative designs on their coins.
This will become a yearly tradition, with every new year came a new design, and for some 200 years the city generated a massive and very impressive series of coins. Today, we are looking at 4 of such coins, full of mythological imagery on them.
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