cn coin 2388
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cn coin 2388

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CN Type 784 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0106_V15 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above, star with eight rays. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0107_R21 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠΙ Μ-ΗΤΡ-ΟΔΟ-ΤΟ
Design
Vine with six bunches of grapes, three on each side, within linear square; in left field, dot; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrodotos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
Diameter
25.5 mm
Weight
14.24 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: 107.1,Fitzwilliam Museum

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 130, nr. 107,1, pl. 6, pic. 107.1 

Sotheby and Wilkinson & Hodge, Collection Dureflé?, London 1900 nr. 234 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 61, nr. 13a, pl. 8 

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 nr. 3953, pl. 144, pic. 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. 173, nr. 107

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 130-131, nr. 106-108 (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 2388, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2388 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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