Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 242. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Ainos. Circa 435/4-405/4 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.29 gm, 10h). Struck circa 412/1-410/9 BC. Head of Hermes right, with long hair, wearing close-fitting petasos ornamented with a row of beads / AIN-I, goat standing right; caduceus to right; all within incuse square. May, Ainos, Group XXXI, 259 (A159/P170); AMNG II 288; BMC Thrace pg. 78, 5; SNG Copenhagen 395. Good VF, toned, even light porosity on obverse. ($5000)

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