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cn coin 15733

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CN Type 3778 🔍

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Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 400-350 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΙΝΙΟΝ
Design
Enthroned cult image of Hermes Perpheraios, left.
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Symbol
caduceus (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
Tetarte (drachm) 🔍  
Standard: Euboic /Attic
Material
gold 🔍  
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
2.11 g
Axis
8
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1838,0419.197

Public Commentary

Gelocht.

Citation

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 77, nr. 1  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 277  ❐

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 77, nr. 1 ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 277 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 185, nr. 361 ❐

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cn coin 15733, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_15733 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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