cn coin 20857
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cn coin 20857

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CN Type 2934 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 388/387-386/385 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
caduceus (position: on the right) petasos (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24.5 mm
Weight
15.05 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_13_048

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. 338.3  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 226, nr. 372a  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 225-226, nr. 371-372, 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. 179, nr. 338 ❐

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cn coin 20857, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20857 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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