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cn coin 11100

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CN Type 2963 🔍

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Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 372/371-370/369 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes facing, slightly left, wearing petasus with dotted brim and button top.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΙΝΙΟΝ
Design
Goat standing right; within incuse square.
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Symbol
corinthian helmet (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
15.53 g
Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 136

Public Commentary

In AMNG, copies of this type are sorted out as fakes.

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 247, nr. 413 a, pl. VI  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 245-247, nr. 411-413, 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. 179, nr. 337 ❐

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cn coin 11100, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11100 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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