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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