cn coin 53985

Connected to Type

CN Type 2997 🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 357-342/341 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes facing, slightly right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΙΝΙΟΝ

Design

Enthroned cult image of Hermes Perpheraios, left.
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Symbol

kantharos (position: on the left)

Metrology

Denomination

drachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

19 mm

Weight

3.99 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 61.1189

Provenience: By 1961: with Hesperia Art, 2219 St. James Place, Philadelphia 3, Pa. (said to be from a small hoard found at Philadelphia in Lydia); December 13, 1961: purchased by MFA from Hesperia Art for $ 1200.-

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 259-260, nr. 436-440, pl. X ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 187, nr. 365 ❐

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cn coin 53985, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53985 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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