cn coin 2457
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cn coin 2457

Connected to Type

CN Type 820 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0132_V32 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΜΑΡΩΝΙΤΕΩ/Ν
Design
Horse prancing left; above, owl flying. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0132_R42 🔍
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
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
13.98 g
Owner

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

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 132.1,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 133, nr. 132.1, pl. 7, pic. 132/1 

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 124, nr. 12 

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1454, pl. 340, pic. 18 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 63, nr. 29, 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. 132

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 133, nr. 132 (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 2457, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2457 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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