cn coin 47350

Connected to Type

CN Type 12244 🔍

Mint

Assos 🔍

Region: Troas

Date

c. 479-440 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

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

Legend

ΑΣΣ

Design

Head of lion, right, in incuse square
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Metrology

Denomination

Obol 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

9.6 mm

Weight

0.46 g

Axis

Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

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 ❐

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 47350, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47350 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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