cn coin 51555

Connected to Type

CN Type 18635 🔍

Mint

Assos 🔍

Region: Troas

Date

69–79 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

[ ] ΑVΤΟΚΡΑΤWΡ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ [ ]

Design

Condronted heads of Titus and Domitian.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΣΣΙΩΝ

Design

Griffin lying left, right forepaw raised.
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Persons

Sitter: Domitian 🔍

Sitter: Titus 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

18 mm

Weight

4.22 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 84.720

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. 145 ❐

Burnett et al., RPC II: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. II: From Vespasian to Domitian (AD 69-96)., London [u.a.] 1999 nr. 900,5 ❐

Literature

Burnett et al., RPC II: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. II: From Vespasian to Domitian (AD 69-96)., London [u.a.] 1999 nr. 900 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 51555, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51555 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]