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cn coin 2279

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CN Type 1938 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0056_V10 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑ-{Ρ}-Ω
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0058_R15 🔍
Design
Ram's head, right, within dotted square border; within incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
drachm 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
3.35 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 725

Provenience: Fonds général 725

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 58,Paris725

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 125, nr. 58, pl. 3, pic. 58  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1788, pl. 57, pic. 12  ❐

Literature

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 52, nr. 31a, pl. 4 ❐

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. 58 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 123-125, nr. 39; 45-47;+56-58 (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 2279, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2279 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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