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cn coin 20903

Connected to Type
CN Type 2953 🔍
Mint
Ainos 🔍
Region: Thrace
Typology
Date
c. 380/379-378/377 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
star (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍
Material
silver  🔍
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
15.57 g
Owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  
Owner Inventory No.: 04.613
Provenience: By date unknown: Subhi Collection; 1878 Sotheby Sale (Subhi Pacha), no. 20 (according to Regling and Brett catalogues); 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. 472: from <br>Subhi sale, 1878, no. 20); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_13_077
Citation
May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 238, nr. 391a, pl. VI 
Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 180, nr. 341.3 
Literature
May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 237-239, nr. 390-394, pl. VI  
Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 180, nr. 341  
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cn coin 20903, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20903 [Last downloaded: 2024/11/14]
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