cn type 2887

Edition

An edition has been created for this type.🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 402/401-400/399 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes facing, slightly left, wearing petasus.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΑΙΝΙ

Design

Goat standing right, in incuse square.
go to the NLP result of this description

Symbol

grain of barley (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

Diobol 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 12 mm / Min: 11 mm

Average Weight

1.23 g (8x)

Axes

6 (1x) 12 (2x)

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 211-212, nr. 334-340, pl. IX  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 184-185, nr. 358+359, annot. Nr. 359: Beizeichen dort als Amphora beschrieben. Wird von May richtigerweise zu diesem Typ gelegt, da auch hier nicht Amphora, sondern Korn gezeigt ist.  ❐

editions

cn.aenus.1_ed.75 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 2887, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/2887 [Last downloaded: 2025/05/21]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us