cn type 2953

Edition

An edition has been created for this type.🔍

Mint

Ainos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

c. 380/379-378/377 BC
Classical Period  🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Hermes facing, slightly left, wearing petasus.
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Reverse

Legend

ΑΙΝΙΟΝ

Design

Goat standing right, in incuse square.
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Symbol

star (position: at the bottom right)

Metrology

Denomination

tetradrachm 🔍 ❐

Material

silver  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 28 mm / Min: 26 mm

Average Weight

15.65 g (10x)

Axes

12 (5x)

Public Commentary

Forgeries of this type are known, see Bulletin on Counterfeits 17.1, 1992, p. 10.

Citation

May, Ainos, its History and Coinage, 474-341 B.C, London 1950 p. 237-239, nr. 390-394, pl. VI  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 180, nr. 341  ❐

editions

cn.aenus.1_ed.101 🔍

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cn type 2953, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/2953 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/12]

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