cn coin 51556

Connected to Type

CN Type 18674 🔍

Mint

Assos 🔍

Region: Troas

Date

98–117 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

Α[ΥΤΟ]Κ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄ ΓЄ[ ]

Design

Laureate head of Trajan, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΣΣΙΩΝ

Design

Head of Athena, right, wearing Attic helmet.
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Persons

Sitter: Trajan 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

32 mm

Weight

16.63 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 84.721

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. 146 ❐

Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London : Paris 2015 nr. 1578,3 ❐

Literature

Amandry et al., RPC III: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. III: Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138), London : Paris 2015 nr. 1578 ❐

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cn coin 51556, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51556 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]