cn coin 16506

Obverse

Design: Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse

Design: Transverse caduceus within incuse square.
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Metrology

Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 58.306
Provenience: By 1907: with Jacob Hirsch, Arcisstrasse 17, Munich, Germany (Hirsch auction 18, May 27ff., 1907, lot 2307; by 1928: with Ars Classica, 31 Quai du Mont-Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland (Ars Classica auction 13, Hôtel <br>Schweizerhof, Lucerne, Switzerland, June 27-29, 1928, lot 575); by 1929: with Ars Classica, 31 Quai du Mont-Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland (Ars Classica auction 14, Hôtel Schweizerhof, Lucerne, Switzerland, July 2, 1929, lot 211); by date unknown: R. Cyril Lockett Collection (SNG Lockett, 1938, no. 1151); by 1958: with Glendining & Co., Ltd., 7 Blenheim Street, New Bond Street, London, W. 1 (Glendining auction of the Lockett Collection, part 6, February 12-13, 1958, lot 1067); purchased at the Glendining auction on behalf of MFA by A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd., 3 Robert Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2; purchased by MFA from A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd., March 13, 1958, for £ 5,354/8/0 (this is the total price of 58.301-58.313) <br>

Citation: May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 22, nr. 1a ❐

Literature: May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 19-23, nr. 1, pl. I ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 155, nr. 254 ❐

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