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cn coin 2338

Connected to Type

CN Type 544 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 480-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0075_V3 🔍
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0075_R4 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
12 mm
Weight
1.79 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Lawson

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 75.2,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 127, nr. 75.2  ❐

Wroth, Greek Coins acquired by the British Museum in 1889., 1889 p. 250, nr. 4  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/1 2/1, Bologna 1965 nr. 1780  ❐

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 54, nr. 44a, pl. 5  ❐

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. 75 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 126-127, nr. 72-78 (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, 480-450 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 2338, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2338 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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