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cn coin 39240

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CN Type 12244 🔍

Mint
Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 479-440 BC

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Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping right, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, curling tail and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
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Design
Head of lion, right, in incuse square
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
9 mm
Weight
0.60 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18271557

Provenience: Löbbecke 1906

Reproduction Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Löbb. 60, S. 0.61

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 ❐

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 39240, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39240 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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