cn coin 53988

Connected to Type

CN Type 2869 🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 405/404-403/402 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

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

Legend

ΑΙΝΙ

Design

Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol

rose (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

Diobol 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

13 mm

Weight

1.28 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.621

Provenience: By date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren; September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren <br> <br>Regling did not list this coin as Greenwell Collection.

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 204-205, nr. 318-319, pl. IX, annot. mit 204 Anm. 1 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 184, nr. 357 ❐

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cn coin 53988, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53988 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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