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cn coin 20822

Connected to Type

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
23 mm
Weight
15.39 g
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_13_020

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. 323,14  (Wrongly attributed to No. 232, because symbol was identified as ear of corn instead of torch. Belongs to No. 336.)  ❐

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

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 20822, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20822 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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