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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Ainos (Thrace) |
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| Year | 365 BC - 362 BC |
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| Reference(s) | May Ainos#422-423 , AMNG II#339 , CN type#4630 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ainos sat at the mouth of the Hebros River on the Thracian coast, and its mint was active precisely because the city controlled that trade corridor — grain, timber, and slaves moving through made it wealthy enough to strike high-quality silver in quantity. The tetradrachms of this narrow four-year window fall within the period of Athenian intervention in Thrace, when Iphikrates and later Timotheos were campaigning in the region, placing Ainos directly within a contested zone between Athenian imperial ambitions and the expanding reach of the Odrysian kingdom.
May's die study distinguished #422 from #423 primarily through obverse die linkage rather than visible typological difference — a distinction invisible without direct comparison against documented specimens.