Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 2390

Connected to Type

CN Type 784 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0106_V15 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above, star with eight rays. Border of dots.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Die
Mar_0108_R22 🔍
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.
go to the NLP result of this description
Persons

Magistrate: Metrodotos 🔍  

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

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

Provenience: de Luynes 1772

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 108,Paris

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 130, nr. 108, pl. 6, pic. 108  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Griechische Münzen in dem königlichen Münzkabinet im Haag und in den anderen Sammlungen. 3, 1876 p. 284, nr. 22  ❐

Babelon, Catalogue de la collection de Luynes: Monnaies greques 2, Paris 1925 pl. 67, pic. 1772  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1449, pl. 340, pic. 13  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 61, nr. 14, pl. 8  ❐

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. 108 ❐

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.)  ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 2390, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2390 [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