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cn type 12362

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Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 360-340 BC

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Obverse
Design
Head of Athena left with Attic helmet, decorated with laurel wreath.
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Reverse
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ΑΣΣΙΟΝ
Design
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Rhodian
Material
Diameter
Max: 16 mm / Min: 14 mm
Average Weight
3.07 g (8x)
Axes
12 (3x)
Public Commentary

For the chronology, see Ellis-Evans, Numismatic Chronicle 178 (2018), 35-42 (350s-340s BC).

Citation

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1269-1270, nr. 2305, pl. CLXIII, pic. 30 

Lazzarini, Assus Troadis: the beginning of coinage and its later silver emissions in the V and IV century BC 2, 2017 p. 39, pic. 13a 

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 p. 163, nr. 1041, pl. XXIV, pic. 1041 

Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 142, nr. 5321, pl. 193, pic. 5321 

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 226, pl. 6, pic. 226 

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 p. 211, nr. 1627, pl. 79, pic. 1627 

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cn type 12362, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12362 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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