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cn coin 41272

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CN Type 12243 🔍
Mint
Assos 🔍
Region: Troas
Date
c. 479-440 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping right, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, curling tail and open beak.
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Reverse
Design
Head of lion, right, in incuse square
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
8 mm
Weight
0.44 g
Axis
7
Owner
Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de  
Owner Inventory No.: 18271555
Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer
Literature
Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 36, nr. 3  
Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 142, nr. 5318, pl. 193, pic. 5318  
Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1051, pl. XLI, pic. 1051  
Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 281-287, pl. 14-15, pic. 281-287  
Lazzarini, Assus Troadis: the beginning of coinage and its later silver emissions in the V and IV century BC 2, 2017 p. 35, pic. 4.a  
Waggoner, Early Greek coins from the collection of Jonathan P. Rosen, New York 1983 nr. 528-529, pl. 20, pic. 528-529  
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cn coin 41272, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_41272 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/03]
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