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cn coin 27589

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CN Type 5566 🔍

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Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Caracalla, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding spear pointed forwards and shield.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΙΝΙΩΝ
Design
Nude youth (Castor) standing left, holding reigns in right hand; behind him, a horse standing left.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
12.94 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 88, Lot 729, 14.9. 2011.

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. 200, nr. 406, pl. V, pic. 31 ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 3881 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 13, nr. 27 (Here youth holding spear.)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 200, nr. 406, pl. V, pic. 31 ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 3881 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 13, nr. 27 ❐

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cn coin 27589, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_27589 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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