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cn coin 2079

Connected to Type

CN Type 500 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-430 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0040_V2 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑ{Ρ}-Ω-{Ν}-Ο{Σ}
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0040_R2 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΟΛ
Design
Ram's head, right, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Pol 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16.5 mm
Weight
3.48 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung MacClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 40.1,Fitzwilliam Museum

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 124, nr. 40/1  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 nr. 3949, pl. 144, pic. 1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 51, nr. 25e  ❐

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. 40 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 124, nr. 40-43 (Thraco-macedonian standard, IIIrd weight series, 495/90-449/48 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, 450-430 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 2079, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2079 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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