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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Ainos |
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| Year | 400 BC - 370 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A goat stands in profile to the left, rendered in vigorous relief with naturalistic musculature; the animal's head is turned back over its shoulder toward the right. To the right of the goat, a karchesion (a kantharos-type drinking vessel on a tall stem with a broad base) is depicted in the field, a cult symbol associated with Hermes and a distinctive emblem of Ainean reverse types. The partial ethnic inscription AINION (rendered here as the visible portion) curves along the upper field. The overall composition is well-centered within the irregular flan, with a granular exergual line below the goat. |
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| Reverse lettering | AINION |
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Ainos — a Thracian coastal city at the mouth of the Hebros river — controlled a commercially vital position on the grain and timber routes between the Black Sea interior and the Aegean world. The city's tetradrachm coinage of this period reflects genuine economic weight: these were not civic vanity issues but working trade currency circulating across a region contested by Macedonian, Odrysian, and Athenian interests simultaneously.
May's die study, the foundational reference for this series, identified significant variation across the #342–343 sequence, making die-matching against his plates a worthwhile exercise before attribution is finalized.