Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 2376

Connected to Type

CN Type 763 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0098_V11 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ-Α-ΡΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above, cantharus. Border of dots.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Die
Mar_0100_R14 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ Μ-ΗΤΡ-ΟΔΟ-ΤΟ
Design
Vine with five bunches of grapes, two on left, three on right, within linear square; all within incuse square.
go to the NLP result of this description
Persons

Magistrate: Metrodotos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
13.78 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 100/2,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 130, nr. 100,2, pl. 5, pic. 100/2  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 124, pic. 11  ❐

Head, A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients, from circ. BC 700 to AD 1, London 1881 p. 25, nr. 4, pl. 12  ❐

Münsterberg, Die Beamtennamen auf den griechischen Münzen: geographisch und alphabetisch geordnet ; 3 Teile u. Nachtr. in e. Bd., 1973 p. 94  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 p. 1448  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 60, nr. 5a, 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. 100 ❐

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.)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 2376, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2376 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us