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cn coin 1785

Connected to Type

CN Type 1958 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-480 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0010_V2 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩ
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left; in field, bunch of grapes.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0010_R3 🔍
Design
Starflower with four long and three short rays within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 15 mm / Min: 14 mm
Weight
3.36 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 10, McClean Collection

Citation

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 nr. 3950, pl. 144, pic. 2  ❐

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 41, nr. 9, pl. 3  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 120, nr. 10, pl. 1, pic. 10  ❐

Literature

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 166, nr. 10 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 120, nr. 10 (Thraco-macedonian standard, IIIrd weight series, 510/05-495/90 BC)  ❐

Psōma et al., The coins from Maroneia and the classical city at Molyvoti: a contribution to the history of Aegean Thrace, Athens 2008 p. 166 (Reduced chian standard, 500-480 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 1785, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1785 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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