cn coin 47349

Connected to Type

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

9 mm

Weight

0.4 g

Axis

6

Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

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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