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cn coin 21041

Connected to Type

CN Type 2983 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 359/358-357/356 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
eagle (position: at the bottom right)
Pecularities

pierced

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26.5 mm
Weight
15.25 g
Axis
12
Owner

Historisches Museum Basel, Basel, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1908.993

Provenience: Geschenk von Ingen. W. Bachofen

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: AIN_2L_14_013

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. 175, nr. 318.1  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 257, nr. 433a  ❐

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 255-258, nr. 427-435, pl. VII ❐

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. 318 ❐

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