cn coin 48798

Connected to Type

CN Type 12242 🔍

Mint

Assos 🔍 ❐
Region: Troas ❐

Date

c. 500-480 BC
Archaic/Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Griffin leaping right, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings up, curling tail and open beak.

Reverse

Design

Head of lion, right, in incuse square

Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

10 mm

Weight

1.32 g

Axis

2

Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 1927,0403.68
Provenience: 1927

Literature

Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 141, nr. 5317, pl. 193, pic. 5317 ❐

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. 2 ❐

Lazzarini, Assus Troadis: the beginning of coinage and its later silver emissions in the V and IV century BC 2, 2017 p. 35, pic. 3.b ❐

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cn coin 48798, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_48798 [Last downloaded: 2023/06/03]

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