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cn coin 2371

Connected to Type

CN Type 763 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0095_V9 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ-Α-ΡΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above, cantharus. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0094_R9 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ-Ι ΜΗ-ΤΡΟ-ΔΟΤ-Ο
Design
Vine with six bunches of grapes, three on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrodotos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
14.01 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 729

Provenience: Fonds général 729

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 95,Paris 729

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 129, nr. 95, pl. 5, pic. 95  ❐

Sestini, Descrizione delle medaglie antiche Greche del Museo Hedervariano, Firenze 1828 p. 57, nr. 4, pl. 1  ❐

Hennin, Manuel de numismatique ancienne, Luxemborg 1872 pl. 16, pic. 4  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1448, pl. 340, pic. 12  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 60, nr. 2, pl. 7  ❐

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. 173, nr. 95 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 129-130, nr. 93-104 (Reduced thraco-macedonian standard, 436/35-411/10 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. 167 (Reduced chian standard, 430-400 BC.)  ❐

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cn coin 2371, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2371 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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