cn coin 20254

Connected to Type

CN Type 2724 🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 455/454-453/452 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΑΙΝΙ

Design

Goat standing right, in incuse square.
go to the NLP result of this description

Symbol

herm on throne to right (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

24.5 mm

Weight

16.20 g

Axis

6

Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb  ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_10_080

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 60, nr. 68b  ❐

Literature

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 156-157, nr. 259  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 57-63, nr. 67-74, pl. II+III (Symbol with kerykeion next to throne: Nos. 68.69.70.71.74; Symbol with a goat figure on the armrest: Nos. 67.72.73)   ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 156-157, nr. 259-260 (caduceus: 259; goat: 260)   ❐

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cn coin 20254, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20254 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/11]

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