cn coin 53984

Connected to Type

CN Type 2794 🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 412/411-410/409 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΙΝΙ

Design

Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol

caduceus (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

25.5 mm

Weight

16.61 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: 62.249
Provenience: By date unknown: with Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Malzgasse 25, Basel, Switzerland; March 14, 1962: purchased by MFA from Münzen und Medaillen, A.G. for $ 1,280.-.

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 147-155, nr. 251-268, pl. IV  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 165, nr. 288  ❐

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cn coin 53984, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53984 [Last downloaded: 2024/09/16]

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