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Tetrobol
| Issuer | Ainos |
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| Year | 396 BC - 393 BC |
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| Value | Tetrobol (⅔) |
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| Reverse description | A goat standing in profile to the right, depicted in fine relief with prominent curved horns and a naturalistic rendering of musculature. To the lower right of the goat stands a small hydria (water jug), serving as a secondary symbol or mint control mark. The ethnic legend ΑΙΝΙΟΝ is inscribed in archaic Greek characters arching above the goat in the upper field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΙΝΙΟΝ |
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Ainos, a Thracian coastal city at the mouth of the Hebros River, maintained its own robust silver coinage well into the fourth century despite sitting uncomfortably between expanding Macedonian and Odrysian Thracian power. These tetrobols belong to a narrow four-year window identified by J.M.F. May's exhaustive 1950 die study, which remains the definitive reference — May's sequencing of the Ainos series by die linkage was meticulous enough that individual emissions can be dated with unusual precision for a Greek civic issue.
SNG Copenhagen 412 provides the closest parallel for fabric and style.