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cn coin 8798

Connected to Type
CN Type 841 🔍
Mint
Maroneia 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology
Date
c. 400-377 BC
Classical Period  🔍
Obverse
Design
Horse prancing left; above, scorpion.
Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΗΤΡΟΦΑΝΗΣ
Design
Vine with bunches of grapes within linear square, surrounded by magsitrate's name, astragalus; all within incuse square.
Persons
Magistrate
Metrophanes (I) 🔍 ❐
Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍 ❐
Material
silver  🔍 ❐
Diameter
23.6 mm
Weight
12.23 g
Axis
8
Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at  ❐
Owner Inventory No.: GR 34982
Provenience: Egger 39, 1912, Taf. 5, 152; Gerasimova-Tomova 39, 33
Findspot
Thracia, gr [gr] ❐
Public Commentary
Ob auf der Vorderseite tatsächlich ein Skorpion gezeigt ist, ist unklar. Eventuell identisch mit Typ ohne Skorpion. It is unclear whether a scorpion is actually shown on the obverse. Possibly identical to the type without a scorpion.
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 137, nr. 165 ❐
West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 79, nr. 58, pl. 11 ❐
Literature
Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 137, nr. 165 ❐
Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 171-173 ❐
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cn coin 8798, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8798 [Last downloaded: 2022/07/05]
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