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cn coin 53991

Connected to Type

CN Type 1894 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 466/465-464/463 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes, right, wearing petasus.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΙΝΙ
Design
Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol
boar's head (position: at the bottom right)
Metrology
Denomination
drachm (siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
4.08 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04.606

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 270 [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. 462); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren

Public Commentary

Boar's head described as calw's head in the Boston online entry.

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 34, nr. 21, 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. 160, nr. 276 ❐

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cn coin 53991, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_53991 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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