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cn coin 2427

Connected to Type

CN Type 789 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0123_V27 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩ/ΝΙΤΕΩΝ
Design
Horse prancing left; above, bearded head of a silen to left. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0123_R36 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΗΤ-ΡΟΔ-ΟΤ-ΟΣ
Design
Vine with five bunches of grapes, three on left, two on right, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrodotos 🔍  

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

Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž (Ermitage), Sankt Petersburg, ru ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 3233

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 123.1,Leningrad

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 132, nr. 123.1  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 63, nr. 30b  ❐

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. 123 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 132, nr. 123-125 (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 2427, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2427 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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