cn coin 1794
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cn coin 1794

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CN Type 513 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-480 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0017_V8 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡ
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0017_R10 🔍
Design
Starflower with four long and three short rays within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
3.39 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us

Owner Inventory No.: 00.185

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 17.4, Boston 00.185

Citation

Perkins, Guide to the Catharine Page Perkins collection of Greek and Roman coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 1902 nr. 188 

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 805 

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 42, nr. 14b 

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 120, nr. 17.4 

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. 17

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 120, nr. 8-9; 11-17, pl. I (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 1794, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1794 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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