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cn coin 1830

Connected to Type

CN Type 1959 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 500-480 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0019_V9 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩ
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left; in field, bunch of grapes.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0018_R11 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Μ-Η-Τ-Ι
Design
Ethnic divided in the four fields of an incuse square; inner square surrounded by pearls.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 17 mm / Min: 15 mm
Weight
3.56 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Provenience: Sammlung Argyropoulos

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 19.2,London

Citation

Casson, Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria, [London] 1926 , pic. 87  ❐

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 43, nr. 17a  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 121, nr. 19.2  ❐

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. 19 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 121, nr. 19 (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 (Chian standard, 500-480 BC.)  ❐

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