cn type 20381
cn type 20381-0
cn type 20381-1
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cn type 20381

Coinage
 
Mint
Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 330-280 BC

Classical/Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet, decorated with serpent, a single-pendant earring and necklace.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΙΟΛΕ
Design
Thunderbolt.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: below) A (position: below)
Metrology
Denomination
Hemisiglos (hemidrachm) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15.6 mm / Min: 15 mm
Average Weight
2.55 g (4x)
Axes
4 (1x) 8 (1x) 10 (2x)
Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Griechische Münzen in dem königlichen Münzkabinet im Haag und in den anderen Sammlungen. 3, 1876 p. 312, nr. 1  ❐

Ellis-Evans, The kingdom of Priam: Lesbos and the Troad between Anatolia and the Aegean, Oxford 2019 p. 260-265  ❐

Cook, The Troad: an archaeological and topographical study, Oxford 1973   ❐

Lenger, A Phantom City in the Troad: Aioleion and its Coinage, 2017   ❐

Lazzarini, L'inizio della monetazione di Assos e una nuova ipotesi su Aioleis (Troade), 1983   ❐

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cn type 20381, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20381 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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