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cn type 12359

Mint
Assos 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

c. 430-420 BC

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Obverse
Design
Head of Athena left 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
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 14 mm
Average Weight
3.22 g (5x)
Axes
1 (1x) 7 (1x) 8 (1x) 11 (1x)
Citation

Forrer, The Weber collection: Greek coins, New York 1975 p. 142, nr. 5320, pl. 193, pic. 5320  ❐

Weber, On some Unpublished or Rare Greek Coins 16, 1896 p. 203, nr. 33, pl. XVI, pic. 13  ❐

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

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cn type 12359, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12359 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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