Tetradrachm Antiadas

Ainos — a Thracian coastal city at the mouth of the Hebros River — was a member of the Delian League during this period, paying tribute to Athens while maintaining its own robust silver coinage funded by regional trade and the rich agricultural hinterland of the Hebros valley. These tetradrachms circulated across the northern Aegean commercial network, competing with the dominant Athenian owls but serving local exchange where Athenian coinage was less entrenched.

The Antiadas issues are distinguished within the Ainos series by magistrate name, placing this piece within May's careful die study as one of the better-documented sequential groups from the mid-fifth century mint.