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cn coin 11160

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CN Type 3002 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357-342/341 BC

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Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes facing three-quarters to right, wearing wide petasus, with curling hair on either side. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΙΝΙΟΝ
Design
Cult image of Hermes Perpheraios on throne to left, its high back in a knob, its armrest ending in a ram's head (supported by a winged sphinx, left); in the left field, forpart of a goat, right.
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Symbol
corn-ear (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
3.60 g
Owner

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

Provenience: de Luynes 1763

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 261, nr. 443, pl. X  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 186, nr. 363  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 261-262, nr. 442-447, pl. X ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 186, nr. 363 ❐

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cn coin 11160, in: Corpus Nummorum, http://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11160 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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