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cn coin 20830

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CN Type 2894 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 396/395-394/393 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
hydria (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
15.12 g
Axis
12
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_13_028

Public Commentary

No subtypes differentiated for handle of Hydria right or left.

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. 178, nr. 333  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 218, nr. 351b  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 217-218, nr. 351-353, pl. 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. 178, nr. 333 ❐

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cn coin 20830, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20830 [Last downloaded: 2026/06/06]

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