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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Ainos (Thrace) |
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| Year | 392 BC - 389 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Facing head of Hermes rendered in fine Classical style, the effigy turned very slightly to the left, with large almond-shaped eyes, fleshy lips, and curling locks of hair escaping from beneath a broad-brimmed petasus adorned along its rim with a row of raised pellets. The portrait fills the flan with considerable artistic confidence, characteristic of the accomplished die-cutters active at Ainos in the early fourth century BC. |
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| Reverse description | A goat stands to the left in profile within a shallow incuse square, its body rendered with naturalistic musculature and a prominent beard falling from the chin; a dolphin appears in the lower left field as a subsidiary symbol. The ethnic legend ΑΙΝΙΟΝ is inscribed above the animal in archaic Greek capitals, identifying the civic authority of Ainos. The incuse square border, a hallmark of early Greek coinage tradition, frames the composition with geometric precision. |
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| Mint | Ainos, Thrace |
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