Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 243. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Ainos. Circa 405/4-357/6 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.84 gm, 1h). Struck circa 370/69-368/7 BC. Head of Hermes facing slightly left, with long hair, wearing petasos ornamented with a row of beads / AINION, goat standing right; to right, head of Hermes right, wearing flat-topped petasos. May, Ainos, Group LVIII, 415 (A251/P295); AMNG II -; BMC Thrace -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned, areas of light porosity. Very rare group, only four examples known to May. ($2000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29-30 May 1997), lot 288 (expertly conserved since).

See lot 240 for more information on the coinage of Ainos.