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cn coin 15781

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CN Type 1897 🔍

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Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 463/462-462/461 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΙΝΙ
Design
Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol
dog (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
15.74 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1887,0606.1

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 39, nr. 28c  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 38-40, nr. 27-30, pl. I ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 158, nr. 264 ❐

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cn coin 15781, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_15781 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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