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cn coin 4564

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CN Type 1887 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 474/473-473/472 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus with dotted brim.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΙΝΙΟΝ
Design
Transverse caduceus within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
15.16 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18236137

Provenience: 1873 Fox

Citation

Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk, Berlin 1924 nr. 352, pl. 15  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 119, nr. 1  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 155, nr. 254.1  ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 22, nr. 1c  ❐

Literature

Fox, Engravings of Unedited or Rare Greek Coins: With descriptions, London 1856 p. 16, nr. 44, pl. 5 ❐

Sallet, Die Münzen von Aenus in Thracien 5, 1878 p. 177-178 ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 19-23, nr. 1, pl. I ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 155, nr. 254 ❐

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