GREEK COINS Macedon Aineia, mid 4th century BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25mm, 14.11g 4). Head of the nymph Aineia to right, wearing wreath of leaves and a prominent triangular pendant earring. Rev. ΑΙΝΕ-ΗΤΩ-Ν Bull standing to right, its head turned back to left. Struck from the same dies as CNG 67 (2004), 401 and Giessener Münzhandlung 102 (2000), 133, otherwise unpublished . Extremely rare. The finest of five known examples , nicely centered and very well struck. Very slight traces of double striking, oth­erwise , extremely fine. Ex Nomos 7, 15 May 2013, 37, and from the Spina Collection, ex Triton VIII, 11 January 2005, 104. Aineia was a very minor city in the Chalkidike, which produced a very rare coinage of staters in the mid 4th century BC (it minted a slightly more abundant coinage of silver fractions in the 5th century as well as some bronze in the 4th century). These staters were apparently all struck from a single pair of dies and were unknown until a find of them appeared in the late 20th century. They are of particularly fine style and have been associated with the later staters from Lokris - though they are, in fact, closer to the profile drachms of the late 5th century from Larissa and the earlier staters of Stymphalos of c. 350. The single pendant ear­ring is notable, as is the wreath the nymph wears; there are no traces of grain or fruits so the idea that this could be a goddess like Demeter seems unlikely. In fact, this is probably the head of a local fountain nymph, especially given the importance water had for the Greeks.