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Ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor


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Assos (BC 450-400) Obol2592 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Obol (0.56g). Griffin seated right / Lion's head right, ΑΣΣ-Ο-Ο-Ν, within incuse square. VF, light porosity. Very rare early issue, unpublished with full ethnic.
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Assos (AD 177-192) AE 41 - Commodus1206 viewsCommodus, 177-192 AD. AE41 - Medallion (42.77g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust R, viewed from the back / [...] KLA[...]-OLAD-A around, ASSIWN in exergue, Commodus in triumphal quadriga left, holding branch, preceeded by Roma or Victory; trophy and two captives on platform behind. Probably the third known specimen. From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Harlan J. Berk 131 (4/2003), lot 531.

Kraft, pl. 88, 14a-b notes that the obverse die used to strike this coin was also used to strike medallions for Pergamum and Mytilene, and that the Mytilene medallion uses the same reverse type as on this coin.
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Assos (BC 450-420) Obol1146 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Obol (0.56g). Griffin seated left / Lion's head left, Α-Σ above, within incuse square. VF, light porosity. Very rare early issue.
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Assos (BC 350) Drachm1138 viewsca 4th cent BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 3.12g). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with olive wreath / Bucranium. Good VF, porous. Scarce.
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Assos (BC 350) Drachm1068 views4th century BC. AR Drachm (3.05g, 1h). Helmeted head of Athena left / ΑΣ-ΣI-ΟΝ, facing bucranium. VF, porous. Rare.
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Assos (BC 350) Drachm951 viewsca 350 BC. AR Drachm (2.83g). Head of Athena left, wearing Attic helmet / ΑΣ-Σ-ΟΝ, Head of bull facing (bucranium), within shallow incuse square. VF. Very rare. Ex Pozzi Coll. (Ars Classica 1, 1920), 2270; ex Lockett Coll. (Glendining, 2/1961), 2209, and "Distinguished American Collection" (Peus 332, 1991), 186.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Obol870 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Obol (0.55g). Griffin walking right / No ethnic, lion's head right within incuse square. VF, light porosity. Very rare early issue, unpublished without an ethnic.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Obol867 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.52g). Griffin walking right / Lion's head right within incuse square. VF, porosity.
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Assos (BC 350-300) AE 10805 viewsca 350-300 BC. AE10 (1.36g). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with olive wreath / Bucranium, ΑΣ-ΣΙ; AP[TA]? above. EF, black patina.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol789 views4th-3rd century BC. AR Obol (0.5g, 9mm). Female head left / A-T, head of griffin right within dotted border in incuse square. VF.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Obol782 views5th century BC. AR Obol (10mm, 0.53g). Griffin leaping right / Head of roaring lion right in incuse square. VF.
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Assos (BC 300-250) AE 16758 viewsca 300-250 BC. AE16 (3.40g, 6h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Griffin seated left, ΑΣΣΙ above, bukranion below.
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Assos (BC 300-241) AE748 viewsca 300-241 BC. AE (0.83g). Head of Athena right, wearing Attic helmet / Griffin sitting left, ΑΣΣΙ above, club below.
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Assos (BC 27-AD 14) AE 16 - Augustus734 viewsAugustus, 27 BC -14 AD. AE19 (3.71g, 12h). Bare head right / Griffin reclining right. VF, brown surfaces, light overall roughness. Ex Prideaux Coll.
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Assos (BC 300-250) AE 20720 views4th-mid 3rd century BC. AE20 (7.15g). Helmeted head of Athena right; countermark: griffin seated left, ΑΣΣΙ below / Griffin seated left; countermark: owl standing facing. Fine, dark green patina.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Obol718 views5th century BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.59g). Griffin leaping right / Head of roaring lion right within incuse square. VF. Scarce.
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Assos (BC 300-250) AE 17696 viewsca 300-250 BC. AE17 (3.70g). Helmeted head of Athena right / Griffin seated left, ΑΣΣΙ above, kerykeion (caduceus) below. Dark green patina, VF. Righetti Coll.
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Assos (BC 300-250) AE 16681 viewsca 400-241 BC. AE16 (4.3g). Helmeted head of Athena right, decorated with olive wreath / Griffin seated left on ground line, ΑΣΣΙ above, kerykeion (caduceus) below. VF.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Hemidrachm676 views4th-3rd centuries BC. AR Triobol (12mm, 1.42g, 12h). Helmeted head of Athena left / Head of lion left within incuse square. Near VF, toned, porous. Extremely rare.
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Assos (BC 300-241) AE646 viewsca 300-241 BC. AE (1.25g). Head of Athena left, wearing Attic helmet / Griffin sitting left, ΑΣΣΙ above. Black patina, VF.
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Assos (BC 350-300) AE 11615 views4th-3rd century BC. AE11 (1.10g). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Bucranium, ΑΣ-ΣΙ, grape bunch (?) above. aEF, dark green patina. Rare.
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Assos (BC 350) Hemidrachm608 viewsca 350 BC. AR Diobol (1.5g, 11mm). Helmeted head of Athena left / ΑΣΣΙΟΝ, bucranium. VF.
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Assos (BC 420-375) AE 6607 viewslate 5th-early 4th century BC. AE6 (0.45g). Head of lion right / Griffin right.
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Assos (BC 350) Hemidrachm550 views4th-3rd century BC. AR Hemidrachm (10mm, 1.51g). Helmeted head of Athena left / AΣΣI, facing boukranion; grain ear to right. gVF. Rare.

Given the weight of this specimen, it seems much more likely that the type was actually a triobol rather than a diobol, with the weight of the obol appearing to be ~0.5g, and the weight of the drachm to be ~3.0g.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Hemiobol546 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (6mm, 0.19g, 6h). Griffin seated right / Head of roaring lion right, within incuse square. VF, porous. Rare and apparently unpublished.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Obol546 views5th century BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.48g, 3h). Griffin seated right / Lion’s head right ΑΣΣ (retrograde) above, within incuse square. VF, toned, light porosity.
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Assos (BC 350-300) AE 9544 viewsca 350-300 BC. AE9 (1.45g). Helmeted head of Athena left / Bucranium, [Α]Σ-ΣΙ. VF, black patina.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Hemiobol542 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.23g, 11h). Griffin right / Lion’s head right within incuse square. Good VF, porous.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol534 views5th-4th century BC. AR Hemiobol (0.31g, 7mm). Head of Apollo left / Head of griffin left within linear square. EF. Rare.
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Assos (AD 69-79) AE 18 - Vespasian525 viewsVespasian, 69-79 AD. AE18 (3.72g). Laureate head right / helmeted head of Athena right. Very rare. gVF.
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Assos (BC 420-375) AE 8522 views4th century BC. AE8 (0.68g, 4h). Griffin seated right / Roaring lion's head right. Good VF, dark brown patina. Alighieri Coll.

The attribution of this coin to Assos is based on its similarity to obols struck during the same period.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Drachm514 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.61g, 1h). Helmeted head of Athena left, bowl of helmet decorated with laurel wreath / Head of lion left; AΣΣOON around; all within incuse square. EF. Very rare.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Hemidrachm486 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Triobol (1.75g, 14 mm). Helmeted head of Athena left / AΣΣΙΟN (retrograde), head of roaring lion left within incuse square. gVF. Rare.
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Assos (BC 350) Drachm484 viewsca 4th-mid 3rd century BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 3.20g, 12h). Head of Athena to left, wearing crested Attic helmet with olive branch on the bowl, pendant earring and necklace / Bukranion, ΑΣΣIΟΝ around. aEF, dark 'find' patina. Very Rare.
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Assos (BC 450-420) Obol483 viewsca 479-450 BC. AR Obol (0.42g, 9mm). Griffin seated left / Lion’s head left in incuse square. VF. Rare early issue.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Hemidrachm474 views450-400 BC. AR Triobol (12mm, 1.73g). Helmeted head of Athena left / AΣΣΙΟN (retrograde), head of lion left within incuse square. VF. Rare.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol469 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (0.42g). Veiled (?) female head left/ ΑΣΣ-ΟΟΝ, griffin right within square linear border within incuse square. VF. Very rare.

The legend allows the assignment of related types. A little later, the same iconography has been assigned to uncertain Lycian dynasts (Traité 245, BMC Lycia 100, Gorny & Mosch 200 (2011), 1926). Presumably, the bronze coins with female/griffin, which were previously set thought from Phocaea (SNG Cop Ionia 1031f.), are minted in Assos.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Drachm463 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Drachm (3.36g, 15mm, 7h). Helmeted head of Athena left / Head of lion left; A-Σ-ΣO-O-N around; all within incuse square. VF, toned, granular surfaces. Very rare.
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Assos (BC 460-440) Trihemiobol?444 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Diobol (?) (11mm, 0.88g). Griffin seated right, raising forepaw / Head of roaring lion right within incuse square. VF. Rare.
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Assos (AD 105-117) AE 19 - Plotina435 viewsPlotina, Augusta, 105-117 AD. AE19 (5.2g). Draped bust right / veiled female figure standing facing holding Cista Mystica. VF.
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Assos (BC 350-300) AE 9419 viewsca 4th-3rd century BC. AE9 (1.16g, 12h). Helmeted head of Athena left / Bucranium. VF, green patina.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol403 views5th century BC. AR Hemiobol (6mm, 0.4g). Veiled female head left / Griffin right, A to left, in dotted linear square within incuse square. VF. Very rare.
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Assos (BC 350) Drachm401 views4th-3rd century BC. AR Drachm (3.00g, 15 mm). Helmeted head of Athena left / AΣΣION, facing bucranium, to left grape bunch. VF.
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Assos (BC 300-241) AE 13394 views3rd century BC. AE13 (1.69g). Helmeted laureate head of Athena right / ΑΣΣΙ, griffin reclining left. gVF.
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Assos (BC 460-440) Hemidrachm386 viewsca 5th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (1.57g, 10mm). Griffin leaping right / Head of roaring lion right in incuse square. Nearly very fine.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol381 views5th century BC. AR Obol (0.4g, 7mm). Female head right / Head of griffin left within linear border in incuse square. VF.
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Assos (BC 350) Hemidrachm381 viewsca 400-241 BC. AR Triobol - Hemidrachm (10mm, 1.25g).
Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with olive wreath / ΑΣ-ΣΙ-ΟΝ, facing boukranion, grape bunch to right.
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Assos (BC 350) Hemidrachm379 views4th-3rd century BC. AR Triobol? (11mm, 1.37g). Helmeted head of Athena right / AΣΣI-ON, head of lion right within incuse square. VF. Extremely rare.
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Assos (BC 300-241) AE 11375 viewsca 400-241 BC. AE11 (1.48g). Helmeted and laureate head of Athena right / AΣΣI; griffin seated left. gVF.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol372 viewsca 350 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.40g, 7mm). Female head (Nymph) right / Head of griffin right within dotted border in incuse square. VF. Rare.
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Assos (BC 350) Tetrobol 365 views4th-3rd century BC. AR Tetrobol (2.24g, 16mm]. Helmeted head of Athena right / AΣΣION, facing boukranion, lightning bolt to left. Very fine, some traces of cleaning.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol363 views4th century BC. AR Hemiobol (0.37g, 7mm). Female head left / Head and neck of griffin left within linear border. VF. Rare.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol350 views4th-3rd centuries BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.40g, 3h). Helmeted head of Athena left / Head of griffin right in dotted square border within incuse square. VF, toned, porous. Extremely rare.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol347 views5th century BC. AR Obol (0.4g, 8mm). Female head right / Head of griffin right, ivy leaf (?) to right, within dotted square border in incuse square. VF.
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Assos (BC 420-375) AE 8332 views4th century BC. AE8 (0.66g). Griffin seated right / Roaring lion's head right. VF.
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Assos (BC 500-450) Drachm324 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.74g). Griffin seated left, raising forepaw / Head of lion right within incuse square. aVF. Very rare.
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Assos (BC 350) Tetrobol309 views4th-3rd century BC. AR Tetrobol (14mm, 2.50g). Wreathed and helmeted head of Athena right / AΣΣION, facing boukranion; thunderbolt to left. VF. Very rare.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Hemidrachm297 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Triobol – Hemidrachm (11mm, 1.77g, 1h). Helmeted head of Athena left / Head of lion left; A-ΣΣI-O-O retrograde around; all within incuse square. VF, toned, minor porosity, a few marks. Very rare.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Drachm276 viewsca 450-400 BC. AR Drachm (12mm, 3.13g). Helmeted head of Athena left / Head of lion with open jaws left, AΣΣ-O-O-N around, all within incuse square. VF.
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Assos (BC 300-250) AE 19266 viewsca 300-250 BC. AE19 (7.97g). Helmeted head of Athena right / Griffin seated left, ΑΣΣΙ above, kerykeion (caduceus) below. VF.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol254 views5th century BC. AR Obol (?) (7mm, 0.47g). Forepart of griffin left / Head of griffin left within linear square border with grid-like pattern; all within incuse square. VF. Rare.
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Assos (BC 350-300) AE 14253 viewsca 4th century BC. AE14 (2.80g). Facing boukranion; AV monogram above / ΑΣΣΙ[...], serpent coiled right. VF. Extremely rare and apparently unpublished.
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Assos (BC 500-450) Drachm251 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Drachm (13mm, 3.26g). Griffin seated left, raising forepaw / Head of lion right within incuse square. gF. Very rare.
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Assos (BC 450-400) Drachm199 views450-400 BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 3.43g). Helmeted head of Athena left / Head of lion left. aVF.
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Assos (BC 420-380) Obol190 views5th-4th century BC. AR Hemiobol (0.35g, 7mm). Female head left/ Griffin right, ivy leaf to right, within dotted linear square within incuse square. VF.
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Assos (BC 350) Hemidrachm178 views4th-3rd century BC. AR Diobol (10mm, 1.13g). Helmeted head of Athena left / AΣΣION, head of lion right within incuse circle. VF. Very rare.
   
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