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cn coin 17204

Connected to Type

CN Type 1905 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 458/457-457/456 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
crescent and star (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
16.52 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_10_052o/r

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. S. 49, nr. 47a  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 47-49, nr. 46-47, pl. II ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 159, nr. 271 ❐

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cn coin 17204, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_17204 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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