cn type 12358

Mint

Assos 🔍

Region: Troas

Date

c. 430-420 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Athena to right with Attic helmet, decorated with laurel wreath.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΣΣΟΟΝ

Design

Lion head, left; in incuse square.
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Metrology

Denomination

hemidrachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

11 mm (1x)

Average Weight

1.71 g (1x)

Citation

Bibliothèque nationale (France) and Babelon, Catalogue de la Collection de Luynes: Monnaies grecques, Paris 1924 p. 25, nr. 2510, pl. XCIV, pic. 2510 ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1267-1268, nr. 2304, pl. CLXIII, pic. 29 ❐

Literature

Lazzarini, Assus Troadis: the beginning of coinage and its later silver emissions in the V and IV century BC 2, 2017 p. 36, pic. 7c ❐

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cn type 12358, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12358 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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