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cn coin 68947

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CN Type 2724 🔍

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Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 455/454-453/452 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
herm on throne to right (position: at the bottom right)
Pecularities

galvano

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm (triple siglos) 🔍  
Standard: Persian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
15.51 g
Axis
9
Owner

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: M 2863

Provenience: GPN 55

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 57-63, nr. 67-74, pl. II+III (Symbol with kerykeion next to throne: Nos. 68.69.70.71.74; Symbol with a goat figure on the armrest: Nos. 67.72.73)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 156-157, nr. 259-260 (caduceus: 259; goat: 260)  ❐

Web Reference: https://mk-bochum.ikmk.net/object?id=ID3119 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 68947, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_68947 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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