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cn type 12245

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Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 400-375 BC

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Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΣ
Design
Head of lion, right, in incuse square
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 9 mm / Min: 7.9 mm
Average Weight
0.47 g (6x)
Axes
11 (2x) 12 (1x)
Citation

Babelon, Inventaire sommaire de la Collection Waddington, Paris 1898 nr. 656  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1267-1268, nr. 2300, pl. CLXIII, pic. 27  ❐

Lazzarini, Assus Troadis: the beginning of coinage and its later silver emissions in the V and IV century BC 2, 2017 p. 36, pic. 5  ❐

Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 300-302, pl. 15, pic. 300-302  ❐

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cn type 12245, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12245 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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