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cn coin 51556

Connected to Type
CN Type 18674 🔍
Mint
Assos 🔍
Region: Troas
Date
98–117 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Legend
Α[ΥΤΟ]Κ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄ ΓЄ[ ]
Design
Laureate head of Trajan, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΣΣΙΩΝ
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Attic helmet.
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Persons
Sitter
Trajan 🔍
Metrology
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
32 mm
Weight
16.63 g
Owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  
Owner Inventory No.: 84.721
Provenience: Acquired in the division of coins following the excavations at Assos. Some coins in the group were said to have been "purchased from natives of the surrounding district." No specific findspot is known for this coin. 1884: gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to the Museum of Fine Arts
Citation
Bell, Coins from Assos, London-Cambridge, MA-Leipzig 1902 p. 304, nr. 146 
Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London :  Paris 2015 nr. 1578,3 
Literature
Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London :  Paris 2015 nr. 1578  
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cn coin 51556, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51556 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/12]
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