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Diobol
| Issuer | Ainos |
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| Year | 408 BC - 406 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | A goat standing to the right in a lively, naturalistic pose, with its head turned back to the left, set within a circular incuse field. A small figure, likely a grasshopper or small animal, appears below the goat in the lower field. The partial legend AINI is inscribed above in archaic Greek characters, reading from left to right across the upper field. The reverse design is characteristic of the civic coinage of Ainos in Thrace, where the goat served as a prominent civic symbol. The incuse border is granular or cable-like, consistent with the die-cutting style of this mint. |
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| Reverse lettering | AINI |
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Ainos, a Thracian coastal city at the mouth of the Hebros River, struck its coinage during a period when the city was caught between Athenian commercial interests and the growing pressure of Spartan naval power following the Sicilian disaster. The diobol denomination served interregional trade along a coastline dense with competing Greek emporia. May's corpus remains the definitive reference for Ainetan bronzes and silver, and the tight date range assigned to this issue reflects die-study evidence rather than documentary record.