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cn coin 2430

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_0125_R38 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΗ-ΤΡΟ-ΔΟΤΟΣ
Design
Vine with six bunches of grapes, three on each side, within linear square; in left field, two dots; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrodotos 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
24 mm
Weight
14.20 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235223

Provenience: 1873 Fox

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 125,Berlin

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 132, nr. 125, pl. 7, pic. 125  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 179, nr. 30  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 63, nr. 32, 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. 125 ❐

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 2430, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2430 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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