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cn coin 1796

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CN Type 513 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

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
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 16 mm / Min: 14.5 mm
Weight
3.45 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 720

Provenience: Fonds général 720

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 17.6, Paris 571

Citation

Mionnet, T.2. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales T. 2, Paris 1807 p. 334, nr. 811  ❐

Dumersan, Description des médailles antiques du Cabinet de feu M. Allier de Hauteroche, Paris 1829 nr. 23, pl. 3, pic. 11  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 pl. 57, pic. 8  ❐

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 42, nr. 14a, pl. 3  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 120, nr. 17.6  ❐

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 1796, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1796 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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