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cn coin 2280

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CN Type 1942 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0059_V11 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑ
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left; above in field, pellet.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0059_R16 🔍
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
16.5 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 723

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 59,Paris 723

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 125, nr. 59, pl. 3, pic. 59  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1440, pl. 340, pic. 5  ❐

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 52, nr. 33b  ❐

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. 59 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 125, nr. 59-60 (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. 173 (Reduced chian standard, 450-430 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 2280, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2280 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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