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cn coin 20821

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CN Type 2889 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 400/399-398/397 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
torch (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
15.94 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.615

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 did not list this as a Greenwell coin.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_13_019

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. 179, nr. 336.2  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 214, nr. 342a  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 212-214, nr. 341-343 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 179, nr. 336 ❐

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cn coin 20821, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20821 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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