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cn coin 11079

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CN Type 2820 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 408/407-407/406 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΙΝΙ
Design
Goat standing right, one forpaw raised.
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Symbol
crab (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetrobol (hemisiglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
2.69 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 6380

Provenience: Fonds général 114

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 164, nr. 289a  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 162-165, nr. 288-291, 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. 166, nr. 291 ❐

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cn coin 11079, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11079 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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