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cn coin 2372

Connected to Type

CN Type 763 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

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_0096_R10 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ Μ-ΗΤΡ-ΟΔΟ-ΤΟ
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
27 mm
Weight
13.76 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 96,Fitzwilliam Museum

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 129, nr. 96, pl. 5, pic. 96  ❐

Hirsch, Sammlung Rhusopoulos 13, München 1905 pl. 8, pic. 579  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 p. 3952, pl. 144, pic. 4  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 60, nr. 3, 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. 96 ❐

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 2372, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2372 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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