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cn type 12238

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Assos 🔍
Region: Troas
Date
c. 500-480 BC
Archaic/Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw 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
drachm 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 13 mm
Average Weight
3.57 g (60x)
Axes
1 (4x) 2 (3x) 3 (2x) 4 (1x) 5 (3x) 6 (6x) 7 (1x) 8 (2x) 9 (5x) 10 (1x) 11 (2x) 12 (3x)
Citation
Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1267-1268, nr. 2298, pl. CLXIII, pic. 25 
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. 1, pl. VII, pic. 9 
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.a 
Ashton et al., Sylloge nummorum Graecorum: England. Vol. 5 Pt. 9: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bosporus - Aeolis, New York 2007 nr. 1050, pl. XLI, pic. 1050 
Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 p. 163, nr. 1040, pl. XXIV, pic. 1040 
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cn type 12238, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12238 [Last downloaded: 2025/02/09]
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