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cn coin 15791

Connected to Type

CN Type 2777 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 419/418-417/416 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
cicada (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
diobol (quarter siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
9 mm
Weight
1.16 g
Axis
5
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1928,0408.2

Public Commentary

May gruppiert zu diesem Typ auch ein Exemplar ohne Zikade (Cambridge McClean Nr. 3857). May also groups a specimen without a cicada for this type (Cambridge McClean No. 3857).

Citation

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 136-138, nr. 231-233, pl. IX  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Dikaia-by-Abdera c. 540/35-476/5 B.C. 5, 1965 p. 136-138, nr. 231-233, pl. IX ❐

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cn coin 15791, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_15791 [Last downloaded: 2026/10/12]

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