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cn coin 2428

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
Max: 24.5 mm / Min: 22 mm
Weight
13.78 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Morgan

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 123.2,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 132, nr. 123.2, pl. 7, pic. 123/2  ❐

Hirsch, Auktionskatalog (Sammlung Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber/Hamburg) 21, München pl. 11, pic. 901  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 63, nr. 30a, pl. 9  ❐

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 2428, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2428 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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