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cn coin 39225

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CN Type 12238 🔍

Mint
Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 500-480 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with feathered wings up, curling tail and open beak.
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Reverse
Design
Head of lion, right, in incuse square
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 14 mm / Min: 13 mm
Weight
3.57 g
Axis
8
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1844,1015.315

Provenience: Purchased from Thomas through Sotheby's (1844)

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 603, c. 36, 1, VII, 9

Citation

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. 1, pl. VII, pic. 9  ❐

Literature

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1267-1268, nr. 2298, pl. CLXIII, pic. 25 ❐

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. 1, pl. VII, pic. 9 ❐

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.a ❐

Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1050, pl. XLI, pic. 1050 ❐

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 p. 163, nr. 1040, pl. XXIV, pic. 1040 ❐

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cn coin 39225, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39225 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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