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cn coin 2412

Connected to Type

CN Type 787 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0120_V24 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩΝ/ΕΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above, laurel wreath. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0120_R33 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΗΤ-ΡΟ-ΔΟ-ΤΟ
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two 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: 23 mm / Min: 21.5 mm
Weight
13.58 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: 120.2,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 131, nr. 120.2, pl. 6, pic. 120/2  ❐

Robinson, Greek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1930-31 12, 1932 p. 110, nr. 8  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 124, nr. 13  ❐

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1455, pl. 340, pic. 19  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 63, nr. 26b  ❐

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. 120 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 131-132, nr. 116-121 (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 2412, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2412 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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