cn coin 47350

Connected to Type

CN Type 12244 🔍

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.

Reverse

Legend

ΑΣΣ

Design

Head of lion, right, in incuse square

Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver ❐

Diameter

9.6 mm

Weight

0.46 g

Axis

9

Owner

priv. coll. H. I., , de

Literature

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1267-1268, nr. 2299, pl. CLXIII, pic. 26 ❐

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 298-299, pl. 15, pic. 298-299 ❐

Hirsch, Sammlung Gustav Philipsen/Kopenhagen 25, München 1909, 1909 p. 154, nr. 1883 ❐

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 ❐

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cn coin 47350, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47350 [Last downloaded: 2022/01/28]

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