cn coin 20765

Connected to Type

CN Type 2819 🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 409/408-408/407 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΙΝΙ

Design

Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol

laurel-spray (position: on the right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍
Standard: Persian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

26 mm

Weight

16.12 g

Axis

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 58.307

Provenience: By date unknown: S. Pozzi Collection: by 1920: with Naville & Cie., 6 and 8 Rue Pécolat, Geneva, Switzerland (auction of the Pozzi Collection, Galeries Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland, April 4ff., 1921, lot 1019); by date unknown: R. Cyril Lockett Collection (SNG, Lockett, 1938, no. 1156); by 1958: with Glendining & Co., Ltd., 7 Blenheim Street, New Bond Street, London, W. 1 (auction of the Lockett Collection, part 6, February 12-13, 1958, lot 1072); purchased at the Lockett auction on behalf of MFA by A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd., 3 Robert Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2; March 13, 1958: purchased by MFA from A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd. for <br>£ 5,354/8/0 (this is the total price of 58.301-58.313)

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_12_056

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 161, nr. 280a ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 160-161, nr. 280, pl. IV ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 20765, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20765 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]