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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Ainos |
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| Year | 461 BC - 458 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΙΝΙ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Ainos, a Thracian coastal city at the mouth of the Aenus river, controlled a strategically vital grain route during the mid-fifth century BC, and its silver coinage reflects that commercial confidence. The city's tetradrachms from this narrow window — roughly contemporary with the consolidation of the Delian League under Athenian dominance — circulated across a trade network stretching from the northern Aegean into the Thracian interior.
May #31 places this issue within a precisely sequenced die study that remains the authoritative reference for Ainetan coinage. James Oliver May's 1966 monograph identified fewer than a handful of known specimens for several dies in this range.