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Tetrobol
| Issuer | Ainos |
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| Year | 431 BC - 429 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Head of Hermes facing right, rendered in fine archaic-to-early Classical style with delicate facial features and a slightly parted mouth. The god wears a broad-brimmed petasos adorned with a row of pellets along its brim, with wavy locks of hair escaping beneath and framing the face. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a smooth, unlettered field, conveying the accomplished die-cutting characteristic of Ainean coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse description | A goat standing to the right in the field, rendered with naturalistic musculature and animated detail; the animal turns its head back to the left, with a budding branch or tree visible behind its neck. To the right of the goat, a double-axe (labrys) is depicted in the field as a civic symbol of Ainos. The ethnic inscription ΑΙΝ appears in the upper left field in archaic Greek letters, identifying the issuing city. The entire design is set within a shallow incuse square consistent with hammered coinage technique of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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