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Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer Ainos (Thrace)
Type Standard circulation coins
Years 462 BC - 460 BC
Value Tetradrachm (4)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 16.33 g
Diameter 24 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered, Incuse
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
419778
References May Ainos# 31-32
John M. F. May; 1950. Ainos, Its History and Coinage (474-341 B.C). Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom.
, AMNG II# 268
Friedrich Münzer, Max L. Strack, Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer (ed.); 1912. Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands / Band 2.1. Die antiken Münzen Thrakien: Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos. Georg Reimer, Berlin, Germany.
, CN type# 1898
Corpus Nummorum Online (https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/)

Obverse

Head of Hermes to right, wearing petasos with a beaded border and a button top, his hair wound around his head in a plait.

Reverse

Goat standing to right; to right, amphora.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΑΙΝΙ

Mint

Aenus / Ainos, Thrace, modern-day Enez, Turkey

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Examples of the type

Picture 1 of the example of Tetradrachm Picture 2 of the example of Tetradrachm
© Münzkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 18236769
23 mm16.56 g 9h (see more)
Picture 1 of the example of Tetradrachm Picture 2 of the example of Tetradrachm
© American Numismatic Society (ANS), 1941.153.320
15.81 g 9h
May Ainos 32
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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
Nomos AG
Auction 20
Lot 75
Internet Archive
10 Jul 2020 XF USD 25 352.46
(CHF 20 000.00)
(+ buyer's premium)

Ex Bank Leu 45, 26 May 1988, 82 and Bank Leu 28, 6 May 1981, 57

Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
Multiple sales of the same specimen:
Künker
Auction 136
Lot 507
Internet Archive
10 Mar 2008 VF USD 4416.90
(EUR 3800.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
The New York Sale
Auction 4
Lot 106
Internet Archive
17 Jan 2002 VF Unsold
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