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cn coin 20593

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CN Type 2794 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 412/411-410/409 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
caduceus (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
16.41 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.609

Provenience: By date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren <br> <br>Regling does not list this as Greenwell Collection.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_12_026

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. 165, nr. 288,7  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 152, nr. 258c  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 147-155, nr. 251-268, pl. IV ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 165, nr. 288 ❐

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cn coin 20593, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20593 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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