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cn coin 2490

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CN Type 825 🔍

Mint
Maroneia 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 430-400 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Mar_0140_V35 🔍
Design
Horse prancing left; above wheel with four spikes. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Mar_0139_R47 🔍
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
Diameter
22 mm
Weight
13.94 g
Owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, us

Owner Inventory No.: 04.625

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: 140.1,Boston

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Griechisches Münzwerk: Die Münzprägung von Maroneia, Berlin 1987 p. 134, nr. 140.1, pl. 8, pic. 140/1 

Regling, Die griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, Berlin 1906 pl. 12, pic. 492 

Anson, Numismata Graeca. Greek coin-types classified for immediate identification, 6 Teile., London 1910 pl. 12, pic. 451 

Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines 2/4 2/4, Paris 1932 nr. 1456 

West, Fifth and fourth Century Gold Coins from the Thracian coast West, Allen B, 1929 p. 65, nr. 45a, pl. 10 

Brett, Catalogue of Greek coins. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 pl. 44, pic. 810 

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. 140

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 2490, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2490 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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