cn coin 53989

Connected to Type

CN Type 2946 🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 383/382-382/381 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, in incuse square.
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Symbol

amphora (position: at the bottom right) astragalos (position: below)

Metrology

Denomination

Tetrobol 🔍
Standard: Chian

Material

silver 🔍

Diameter

13 mm

Weight

2.59 g

Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.617

Provenience: By date unknown: James Whittall Collection; by 1884: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London (auction of the James Whittall Collection, July 10ff., 1884, lot 279 [partial, not illustrated]); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 478); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 234, nr. 380 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 182, nr. 348 ❐

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cn coin 53989, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53989 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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