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cn coin 51562

Connected to Type

CN Type 19545 🔍

Mint
Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

193-211 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV Κ Λ ϹЄΠΤ ϹЄVΗΡΟϹ Π
Design
Laureate head of Septimius Severus, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑϹϹΙΩΝ
Design
Asclepius standing left, holding serpent staff in right hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Septimius Severus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
2.66 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 84.727

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. 305, nr. 152  ❐

Literature

Franke, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Sammlung v. Aulock. Nachträge II. Mysien 7191-7531, Troas 7532-7666, Aeolis 7667-7709, Lesbos 7710-7758, Berlin 1967 nr. 7591, pl. 263, pic. 7591 ❐

Kraft, Das System der kaiserzeitlichen Münzprägung in Kleinasien: Materialien und Entwürfe, Berlin 1972 pl. 65, pic. 17a ❐

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cn coin 51562, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51562 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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