Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Ainos (Thrace)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	412 BC - 409 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Srebro
Weight	16.54 g
Diameter	23 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 171522
References	May Ainos# 251-268 John M. F. May; 1950. Ainos, Its History and Coinage (474-341 B.C). Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom. , AMNG II# 288 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. , BMC Greek# 5 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , SNG Copenhagen# 395 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , BostonMFA# 779 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , SNG Lockett# 1157 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , Jameson# 1048 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , CN type# 2794 Corpus Nummorum Online (https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/) , SNG Delepierre# 780 Hélène Nicolet-Pierre, Georges Le Rider; 1983. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France / Volume 1. Bibliothèque nationale de France: Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France. , Kraay&Hirm# 422 Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Głowa Hermesa po prawej stronie, ubrana w obcisłe petasos z gałką u góry i koralikami wzdłuż krawędzi Automatically translated

Reverse

Koza stojąca w prawo i w prawo, kerykeion. Całość w obrębie kwadratu Automatically translated

Script: grecki

Lettering: ΑΙΝΙ

Mint

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

Comments

(en)

Locker-Lampson 131; Bement 809.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (412 BC - 409 BC)								$ 21 000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Nomos AG Auction 18 Lot 63	5 May 2019	XF	USD 20 304.93 (CHF 16 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Gorny & Mosch Auction 228 Lot 49	9 Mar 2015	XF	USD 10 472.50 (EUR 9000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung
	Nomos AG Auction 8 Lot 64	22 Oct 2013	XF	USD 24 112.10 (CHF 19 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
From the collections of R. Jameson and Prince Chakowski, Egger XX, 1 July 1908, 240; ex Numismatic Fine Arts XII, 23 March 1983, 37
© Nomos AG
	The New York Sale Auction 27 Lot 234	4 Jan 2012	XF	USD 27 500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From collections of Prince Chakowski, Egger XX, 1 July 1908, 241; ex Jacob Hirsch XXXIII, 17 Nov 1913, 564; ex Helbing, 1928, 128; ex Bank Leu, Auction 15, 4 & 5 May 1976, 156; Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Sotheby’s, 21 & 22 June 1990, lot 324
© The New York Sale
	Roma Numismatics Auction 2 Lot 270	2 Oct 2011	XF	USD 23 539.44 (GBP 17 500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Leu 83, 2002, 138; ex Sotheby’s Zürich, 26 Oct 1993, 24; ex NAC 6, 11 Mar 1993, 131; ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXII, 1; June 1989, 236; ex R. Ratto, 4 April 1927, 789; ex Naville V, 18 June 1923, 1509
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	CNG Auction 87 Lot 250	18 May 2011	XF	USD 17 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Nomos AG Auction 3 Lot 38	10 May 2011	XF	USD 24 112.10 (CHF 19 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Nomos AG Auction 1 Lot 33	6 May 2009	XF	USD 27 919.28 (CHF 22 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 150 Lot 613	2 Dec 2024	VF	USD 4758.97 (CHF 3750.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG