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cn coin 7179

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CN Type 2934 🔍

Mint
Ainos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 388/387-386/385 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Hermes facing, slightly left, wearing petasus with dotted brim; hair standing out on either side in richly curling locks.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΙΝΙΟΝ
Design
Goat standing right; to right below beard, flat-topped petasos and caduceus; all within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Standard: Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
15.31 g
Axis
12
Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett, Dresden, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: AAB673

Literature

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 226, nr. 371-372, pl. V ❐

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 225-226, nr. 371-372, pl. V ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 179, nr. 338 ❐

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cn coin 7179, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7179 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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