cn coin 20371

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.
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Symbol

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

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

26 mm

Weight

15.78 g

Axis

3

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 04.603
Provenience: By date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 458); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_11_010

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 157, nr. 260,2  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 62, nr. 73a  ❐

Literature

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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