cn coin 2276
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cn coin 2276

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CN Type 558 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-430 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0052_V8 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑ-Ρ
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0054_R12 🔍
Design
Ram's head, right, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
3.54 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 54.2,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 125, nr. 54.2 

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 234, nr. 9a 

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 52, nr. 34a, pl. 4 

Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek coins, New York 1976 p. 154, pl. 31, pic. 546 

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. 54

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 125-126, nr. 54-55; 67 (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 2276, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2276 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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