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cn coin 2486

Connected to Type

CN Type 825 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0138_V34 🔍
Design
Horse prancing left; above wheel with four spikes. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0138_R46 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΗΤ-ΡΟ-ΦΩ-Ν
Design
Vine with four bunches of grapes within linear square; in left field, three dots; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Metrophon 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
distater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 23 mm / Min: 21 mm
Weight
14.31 g
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 138,London

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 134, nr. 138, pl. 7, pic. 138  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 125, nr. 14  ❐

Münsterberg, Die Beamtennamen auf den griechischen Münzen: geographisch und alphabetisch geordnet ; 3 Teile u. Nachtr. in e. Bd., 1973 p. 94  ❐

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 64, nr. 41, pl. 10  ❐

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. 138 ❐

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 2486, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2486 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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