Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 240. Closing Date: Jan 
10, 2005. Estimate $7500 Sold For $8500 

THRACE, Ainos. Circa 474/3-449/8 BC. AR 
Tetradrachm (15.95 gm, 8h). Struck circa 
455/4-453/2 BC. Head of Hermes right, wearing 
close-fitting petasos ornamented with a row of 
beads / AIN-I, goat standing right; to right, 
cult-figure of Hermes Perpheraios standing on 
throne facing right, caduceus on arm of throne, 
wreath draped on back of throne; all within incuse 
square. May, Ainos, Group XV, 71 (A45/P54); Von 
Fritze, Ainos pl. I, 5 (this coin); AMNG II 260; 
BMC 3; SNG Fitzwilliam 1652 (same dies); Winterthur 1148 
(same dies). Good VF, toned, even light porosity. 

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.

Von Fritze cites his plate coin to the H. Weber 
Collection, but this coin does not appear in the 
Weber catalog. Also, May incorrectly lists the von 
Fritze plate coin as example 71c, which is 
actually the Winterthur specimen (Winterthur 1148).

Ainos never became an important city or trading center. The 
climate might have had something to do with it; according 
to Athaneus, Ainos had two seasons, eight months of cold and 
four months of winter. 

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