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cn coin 2353

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CN Type 544 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 480-450 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0079_V1 🔍
Design
Forepart of prancing horse, left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0079_R1 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse square with uneven surfaces.
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Metrology
Denomination
hemidrachm 🔍  
Standard: Thraco-Macedonian
Material
Diameter
11 mm
Weight
1.26 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 01.5447

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 79,Boston

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 127, nr. 79, pl. 4, pic. 79 

Perkins, Guide to the Catharine Page Perkins collection of Greek and Roman coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston 1902 nr. 187 

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 804 

May, The Coinage of Maroneia c. 520-449/8 B. C., 1965 p. 54, nr. 47, 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. 79

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 2353, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2353 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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