cn coin 53986

Connected to Type

CN Type 6257 🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 363-356 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes facing three-quarters left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΙΝΙΟΝ

Design

Goat standing right.
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Symbol

Tripod (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

27 mm

Weight

15.49 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 59.963

Provenience: By date unknown: with Byron Th. Zoumboulakis, 8 Place de la Taconnerie, Geneva, Switzerland; December 10, 1959: purchased by MFA from Byron Th. Zoumboulaki for $ 750.00

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 281, nr. 6, pl. VII ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 178, nr. 335 ❐

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cn coin 53986, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53986 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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