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cn coin 20789

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CN Type 2830 🔍

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Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 407/406-406/405 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΙΝΙ
Design
Goat standing right, one forpaw raised.
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Symbol
fly (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
diobol (quarter siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
1.30 g
Axis
3
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.612

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. 471); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_12_097

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. 167, nr. 294.2  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 171, nr. 310a  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 170-171, nr. 310-312, pl. IX ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 167, nr. 294 ❐

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cn coin 20789, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20789 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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