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Drachm
| Issuer | Ainos |
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| Year | 357 BC - 341 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΙΝΙΟΝ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Ainos — a Thracian coastal city at the mouth of the Hebros River — struck this drachm during a period of intense Macedonian pressure on the northern Aegean. Philip II's campaigns through Thrace in the 350s and 340s systematically absorbed or neutralized Greek coastal poleis, and Ainos lost its autonomy entirely by around 341 BC, the closing date of this emission. The city's coinage effectively ends with Macedonian annexation, making the series datable by political extinction rather than mint records.
May's die study identifies five closely related varieties within #436–440, distinguished primarily by magistrate controls.