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cn coin 11110

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 with dotted brim.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΙΝΙ
Design
Goat standing right; within incuse square.
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Symbol
grain of barley (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
Diobol 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
1.30 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: M 5951

Provenience: Fonds général 146

Citation

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

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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cn coin 11110, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11110 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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