Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 20239

Connected to Type

CN Type 1906 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 457/456-456/455 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΙΝΙ
Design
Goat standing right, in incuse square.
go to the NLP result of this description
Symbol
crescent inside ivy leaf (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
16.34 g
Axis
12
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.604

Provenience: By date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 460); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_10_061

Citation

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. 272,2  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 51, nr. 51c  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 49-52, nr. 48-54, 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. 272 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 20239, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20239 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us