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cn coin 20855

Connected to Type

CN Type 2925 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 392/391-390/389 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
dolphin (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_13_046

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 224, nr. 369a  ❐

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. 175, nr. 321 ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 222-224, nr. 366, 368, 369, 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. 175, nr. 320 ❐

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cn coin 20855, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20855 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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