Assos
CN_24159

Mint

Assos

Date

c. 410-400 BC

Period

Classical Period

Denomination

tetradrachm

Standard

Chian

Legend

Reverse

ΑΣΣΙΟΝ

Design

Obverse

Head of Athena, left, wearing crested Attic helmet.

Reverse

Cult statue of Athena, facing right, holding spear and knotted wool bands.

Coinage

Type

city

Material

silver

Diameter Max

24 mm

Diameter Min

22 mm

Weight

15.01 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, FR

Owner Inventory No.

41768756

Provenience

Fonds général.498; Waddington 655

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, DE

Plaster Cast No

Paris W. 655, 15.00

Citation

Babelon, Inventaire sommaire de la Collection Waddington(no. 655, pl. VI, pic. 7)Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines(vol. II.2, no. 2302, p. 1267-1268, pl. CLXIII, pic. 28)Lazzarini, Assus Troadis: the beginning of coinage and its later silver emissions in the V and IV century BC(p. 38, pic. 12)

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Assos CN_24159, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_24159 [Last downloaded: 2021/01/15]

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