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cn coin 49374

Connected to Type

CN Type 2789 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 415/414-413/412 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
ivy-branch (position: on the right)
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23.8 mm / Min: 22.2 mm
Weight
16.16 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Gorny&Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auktion 100, 20.11.1999, lot 1016; Lanz 82 (24.11.1997) 96; Lanz 56, 1991, 76; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Sothebys New York, 4.12.1990, 21; Hirsch 18, 1970, 2312; Collection Vicomte de Sariges

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 142-146, nr. 244-248, pl. III ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 164, nr. 286 ❐

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cn coin 49374, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_49374 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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