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cn type 12242

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Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 500-480 BC

Archaic/Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping right, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings up, curling tail and open beak.
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Reverse
Design
Head of lion, right, in incuse square
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 10.8 mm / Min: 10 mm
Average Weight
1.38 g (4x)
Axes
2 (2x) 6 (1x)
Citation

Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 141, nr. 5317, pl. 193, pic. 5317  ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 p. 36, nr. 2  ❐

Lazzarini, Assus Troadis: the beginning of coinage and its later silver emissions in the V and IV century BC 2, 2017 p. 35, pic. 3.b  ❐

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cn type 12242, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12242 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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