cn coin 20821

Connected to Type

CN Type 2889 🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 400/399-398/397 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes facing, slightly left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΙΝΙΟΝ

Design

Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol

torch (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

24 mm

Weight

15.94 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 04.615
Provenience: By date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren <br> <br>Regling did not list this as a Greenwell coin.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin [de] ❐
Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_13_019

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. 179, nr. 336.2  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 214, nr. 342a  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 212-214, nr. 341-343  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 179, nr. 336  ❐

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cn coin 20821, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20821 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/23]

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