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cn coin 47757

Connected to Type

CN Type 1906 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 457/456-456/455 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΙΝΙ
Design
Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol
crescent inside ivy leaf (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
15.76 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 170, 13./14.10. 2008, lot 1181

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 49-52, nr. 48-54, pl. II ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 159, nr. 272 ❐

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cn coin 47757, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_47757 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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