Ainos, Tetarte (drachm) (CN type 3778)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 400-350 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceTetarte (drachm) in gold struck at Ainos in Thrace dated ca. 400-350 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 3778. Obverse: Head of (youthful) Hermes, left, wearing petasus. Reverse: Enthroned cult image of Hermes Perpheraios, left.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- gold
- Denomination
- Tetarte (drachm)
- Recorded diameter
- 11 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 2.11 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Ainos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Weight standard
- Euboic /Attic
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of (youthful) Hermes, left, wearing petasus.
- Reverse type
- Enthroned cult image of Hermes Perpheraios, left.
- Reverse legend
- ΑΙΝΙΟΝ
Identification
- Period
- Classical Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/3778
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 3778
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 77, nr. 1
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 277
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 185, nr. 361
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution