cn coin 28417

Connected to Type

CN Type 2887 🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 402/401-400/399 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

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

Legend

ΑΙΝΙ

Design

Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol

grain of barley (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

Diobol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

12 mm

Weight

1.3 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 04.620
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 piece as Greenwell Collection.

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 211, nr. 334, pl. IX  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 185, nr. 359, annot. Nr. 359: Beizeichen als Amphora beschrieben, aber Korn gezeigt.  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 211-212, nr. 334-340, pl. IX  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 184-185, nr. 358+359, annot. Nr. 359: Beizeichen dort als Amphora beschrieben. Wird von May richtigerweise zu diesem Typ gelegt, da auch hier nicht Amphora, sondern Korn gezeigt ist.  ❐

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