cn coin 52964

Forgery

date: ca. AD 1820

period: modern

specifica: Coloured Plastercast

technique: cast

counterfeiter: Caprara

May, Ainos 246, Note 2: in AMNG 337 six forgeries (Berlin, Bukarest, BM, St. Petersburg, Paris, Sotheby SWH 27. Juni 1887, 175) of this type are listed, three from the same pair of dies. Apart from the Berlin specimen, the spurious coins are descidedly over the normal weight, ranging from 16.03 to 17.56g. Another specimen, probably from the same dies, is moddeled on Mionnet's drawing of our No. 413a and it is not impossible that the counterfeiter never saw the original or a genuine coin of this issue. Another forgery from the same reverse die exists, but withpout the helmet, which was evidently added later. (Cambridge, Leake suppl. ex Sale Paris April 1855, Rochette, 311). Is in the forgeries collection in the Berlin Coin Cabinet.

Connected to types 2963 🔍

• side: both
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Mint

Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes facing, slightly left, wearing petasus with dotted brim and button top.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΙΝΙΟΝ

Design

Goat standing right; within incuse square.
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Symbol

corinthian helmet (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18303330

Public Commentary

In AMNG, copies of this type are sorted out as fakes.

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 247, nr. 413 a, pl. VI  (on the original coin)  ❐

Kinns, The Caprara forgeries, London 1984 p. 14f., nr. 5  (same dies)  ❐

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cn coin 52964, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_52964 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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