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cn coin 20806

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CN Type 2875 🔍

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Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 402/401-400/399 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes facing three-quarters left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΙΝΙΟΝ
Design
Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol
corn-ear (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
Diameter
23.5 mm
Weight
15.93 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_13_005

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 210, nr. 327a 

Literature

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 176, nr. 323

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 207-211, nr. 324-332, pl. IV-V

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 176, nr. 323

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cn coin 20806, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20806 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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