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cn coin 2479

Connected to Type

CN Type 825 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0137_V33 🔍
Design
Horse prancing left; above wheel with four spikes. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0136_R45 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΗΤ-ΡΟ-ΦΩ-Ν
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes, two on each side, within linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrophon 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 22 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
13.94 g
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 137,F.M. SNG 30

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 134, nr. 137, pl. 8, pic. 137  ❐

Sotheby, Catalogue of the Bunbury collection of Greek coins = Auktionskatalog Sotheby, London Juni 1896, London 1896 nr. 587  ❐

British Academy, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : [England] / The British Academy Vol. 4: Fitzwilliam Museum: Leake and general collections, London 1972 p. 30, nr. 1724  ❐

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. 137 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 133-134, nr. 135-14. 142 (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 2479, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2479 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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