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cn coin 20861

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CN Type 2941 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 385/384-384/383 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
grape (position: at the bottom right) grain of barley (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24.5 mm
Weight
15.19 g
Axis
12
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_13_052

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 230, nr. 375b  ❐

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. 177, nr. 327 ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 229-231, nr. 375-376, 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. 177, nr. 327 ❐

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cn coin 20861, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_20861 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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