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cn coin 15764

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CN Type 3008 🔍

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Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 357-342/341 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes facing, slightly right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΙΝΙΟΝ
Design
Enthroned cult image of Hermes Perpheraios, left.
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Symbol
star (position: on the left)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15.5 mm
Weight
3.33 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: RPK,p94C.3.Aen

Provenience: Bequeathed by: Richard Payne Knight, 1824

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 263, nr. 452, 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. 187, nr. 366  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 263, nr. 452, 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. 187, nr. 366 ❐

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cn coin 15764, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_15764 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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