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cn type 12244

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Assos 🔍
Region: Troas
Date
c. 479-440 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping right, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, curling tail and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΣΣ
Design
Head of lion, right, in incuse square
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Metrology
Denomination
Obol 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
Max: 10.2 mm / Min: 8.4 mm
Average Weight
0.54 g (5x)
Axes
7 (1x) 9 (1x) 12 (1x)
Citation
Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines II.2, Paris 1910 p. 1267-1268, nr. 2299, pl. CLXIII, pic. 26 
Tekin and Özdizbay, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 9, Volume 1: Turkey. The Özkan Arikantürk collection. Troas, Istanbul 2015 nr. 298-299, pl. 15, pic. 298-299 
Hirsch, Sammlung Gustav Philipsen/Kopenhagen 25, München 1909, 1909 p. 154, nr. 1883 
Lazzarini, Assus Troadis: the beginning of coinage and its later silver emissions in the V and IV century BC 2, 2017 p. 35, pic. 4.a 
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cn type 12244, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12244 [Last downloaded: 2024/11/07]
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