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cn coin 2431

Connected to Type

CN Type 791 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0126_V28 🔍
Design
Horse prancing left; above, head of Apollo facing, slightly right. 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
23 mm
Weight
14.24 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 126,Fitzwilliam Museum

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 132, nr. 126, pl. 7, pic. 126  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 p. 3955, pl. 144, pic. 7  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 64, nr. 33, 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. 126 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 132-133, nr. 126-128 (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 2431, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2431 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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